Tags / Engineering & tools
Productivity
- V2ers on Lying Flat: Meta Build, or Move Back to a County Town? Two V2EX threads, side by side: a slogan post about “four nos,” and a concrete case with ~¥2M savings, a kid, and a rural house. The real fight is definition vs constraints.
- Code Is Fast, Delivery Isn't: Muse and One Context Coding speed gains get eaten by specs, context gaps and handoffs. Muse puts Agent OS and Harness on one context line — product, eng and QA need one flow.
- ChatGPT Improves Answers; Critical Thinking Widens Ideas A 1,000-student RCT from Bocconi and OpenAI: AI raises polish; causal-reasoning training raises originality. Old rubrics miss half the signal.
- Why Code Search Makes Coding Agents So Expensive Sonar's comparison on Turing Post: semantic code navigation cut agent cost 5–36%. The sharper question: did the agent find every site that needed to change?
- Zero-Cost Cold Start: 10 Methods from AFFiNE's Co-Founder HeyGen ran 1,800 user interviews via a Fiverr video studio; Lark SEA got 30 of 50 early customers from LinkedIn DMs. Ten zero-cost ways to find early users.
- RingCentral Goes AI-Native: From Challenge to PMO OS OpenAI case study: RingCentral gave ChatGPT Work and Codex to thousands of staff, and its PMO turned AI workflows into a program-management operating system.
- Why Build Your WebApp in Canvas Instead of HTML Why Google Docs, Sheets, Canva, Miro, and Hivekit’s scheduler paint core UI on Canvas—speed, control, consistency, portability—and when you should not.
- The scarcest skill in the AI era: saying it clearly Why are 99% of the questions people ask AI garbage? We never learned to speak clearly. Clarity is what turns a model into a lever instead of a junk factory.
- AI made people faster. Why didn't the company get stronger? Everyone is on ChatGPT; results did not take off. A 130-year-old story about electric motors is still the most honest picture of how AI lands inside a firm.
- AI didn't 10x your output. It 10x'd the work. A Silicon Valley engineer on the real numbers: 93% use AI, throughput rose ~10%, one study found it made people 19% slower. AI fatigue is structural.
- When I learn a new field, I scrape it first The first step in a new field isn't reading a book. It's scraping the best sources into a private knowledge base: zero to 80 clean documents in two hours.
- Taste at Speed: when building is cheap, PM skill changes Anthropic's Boris Cherny ships 20–30 PRs a day, all written by Claude. When building isn't the bottleneck, the PM job is to evaluate fast and kill most of it.