Sam Bible 🇺🇦

This is the question every software company is asking themselves right now. What happens to our roadmap if an engineer can produce 2X or 5X more output. The general direction will be roadmap expansion. Companies that just use this leverage to cut costs will be outcompeted by those that decide to do more. As a result, this will mean we will see more competitive battles between companies, but also the expansion of many more categories since software can touch more surface area. The limiter then becomes how rapidly your customers can actually adopt new software, how good you make that software (vs. it becomes slop because it’s so much easier), and whether you can get paid for more software or if customers’ expectations just go up over time for what they get from each vendor. As an aside, building up a brand, ecosystem, and distribution moat ends up being critical. If software development cost per unit go down, then the new game is how you can get customers to adopt and remain sticky. GTM becomes a critical factor in all this.

Dropped the phrase "product slop" today in a call — when teams can ship so much more at 100x the speed, the risk of bloated, feature-dense but unfocused experiences quickly becomes a concern. "More things faster" is rarely a recipe for excellence. When it takes weeks to ship, you justify every feature. When it takes hours, you ship everything. Why not? It feels like progress and momentum, right? When the cost to build something was higher, and took more time, the need to justify the build and ensure it was oriented to mission and incrementally valuable (aka the *right thing* to build) helped mitigate this. With the cost and time effectively dropping to zero (I can code a complete product feature tonight after dinner) — everything changes about how we build high-quality products. Judgement and taste become the constraint. Unsurprisingly, I believe design plays an even more critical role in this new world than ever.

I’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response to new information. It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13 NIV Watch the full video in the Bible App!

If you've been following, you know about my quest to learn about Jesus. We realized we didn't have a Bible and today it arrived. Thankfully, it did not spontaneously combust when I touched it - so we've got that going for us. Where should we start? I think we are going to read a section every evening, we get up at 4:45 and the morning is already rushed. I know the Jesus part is in the second half, but it's going to take a long time to read the whole book. So what is a good starting point? Thank you all for all of the support. It's weird talking about real life on here and not just being completely obnoxious (love you, my boomers). I'm finding a way to still be me and explore this without guilt and shame. Thanks to those of you who have supported that.