Insha Kanue

#HRSKickOff2023 #GlobalCompany #hrstribe #hrs

Stripe CEO right now:

The paradox of maturing is that you arrive back at the child

engineering is the highest form of art

True currency is steadfast friendship

Markdown is the new Python

Nassim Taleb, what a line

You still need to know how to code

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

everything is programming

Bitcoin Price on Eid 🌙 2010: $0.06 2011: $3 2012: $5 2013: $100 2014: $450 2015: $280 2016: $660 2017: $2,550 2018: $6,650 2019: $7,400 2020: $8,700 2021: $45,400 2022: $38,000 2023: $27,100 2024: $67,500 2025: $83,500 2026: $70,500

@amasad Eid Mubarak

Happy Eid! 😊

After seeing petrol prices, I finally understand why Dajjal will arrive on a donkey

Everyone who reads #books, gains access to a portion of world knowledge. I ask people to please make reading as a habit.

Jews running to Germany for safety. God has a sense of humor.

“Learn your religion, do not inherit it.”

@durov No country is perfect, but Dubai and UAE broadly are objectively safer and better run than many areas of Europe

Unfortunately, I had to leave Dubai for Europe a week ago — so I’m not only missing the free fireworks from Iran, but also exposing myself to greater risk. Given Europe’s crime rates, Dubai is statistically safer even with missiles flying. Can’t wait to be back.

Just do things…

Vibe Coding Is the New Product Management “There’s been a shift—a marked pronouncement in the last year and especially in the last few months—most pronounced by Claude Code, which is a specific model that has a coding engine in it, which is so good that I think now you have vibe coders, which are people who didn’t really code much or hadn’t coded in a long time, who are using essentially English as a programming language—as an input into this code bot—which can do end-to-end coding. Instead of just helping you debug things in the middle, you can describe an application that you want. You can have it lay out a plan, you can have it interview you for the plan. You can give it feedback along the way, and then it’ll chunk it up and will build all the scaffolding. It’ll download all the libraries and all the connectors and all the hooks, and it’ll start building your app and building test harnesses and testing it. And you can keep giving it feedback and debugging it by voice, saying, “This doesn’t work. That works. Change this. Change that,” and have it build you an entire working application without your having written a single line of code. For a large group of people who either don’t code anymore or never did, this is mind-blowing. This is taking them from idea space, and opinion space, and from taste directly into product. So that’s what I mean—product management has taken over coding. Vibe coding is the new product management. Instead of trying to manage a product or a bunch of engineers by telling them what to do, you’re now telling a computer what to do. And the computer is tireless. The computer is egoless, and it’ll just keep working. It’ll take feedback without getting offended. You can spin up multiple instances. It’ll work 24/7 and you can have it produce working output. What does that mean? Just like now anybody can make a video or anyone can make a podcast, anyone can now make an application. So we should expect to see a tsunami of applications. Not that we don’t have one already in the App Store, but it doesn’t even begin to compare to what we’re going to see. However, when you start drowning in these applications, does that necessarily mean that these are all going to get used or they’re competitive? No. I think it’s going to break into two kinds of things. First, the best application for a given use case still tends to win the entire category. When you have such a multiplicity of content, whether in videos or audio or music or applications, there’s no demand for average. Nobody wants the average thing. People want the best thing that does the job. So first of all, you just have more shots on goal. So there will be more of the best. There will be a lot more niches getting filled. You might have wanted an application for a very specific thing, like tracking lunar phases in a certain context, or a certain kind of personality test, or a very specific kind of video game that made you nostalgic for something. Before, the market just wasn’t large enough to justify the cost of an engineer coding away for a year or two. But now the best vibe coding app might be enough to scratch that itch or fill that slot. So a lot more niches will get filled, and as that happens, the tide will rise. The best applications—those engineers themselves are going to be much more leveraged. They’ll be able to add more features, fix more bugs, smooth out more of the edges. So the best applications will continue to get better. A lot more niches will get filled. And even individual niches—such as you want an app that’s just for your own very specific health tracking needs, or for your own very specific architectural layout or design—that app that could have never existed will now exist.”

Hard times create German philosophers. German philosophers create good times. Good times create French philosophers. French philosophers create hard times.