Kyle Aster

Way back when, I created The Zen of GitHub to direct the taste of a growing software company. I'm still really proud of it. Fast forward twelve years. Now it's the basis for my agent instructions (with some edits). What a wild end-run. warpspire.com/posts/taste

@dodeja I know that he has given you a lot of wealth and flattery. I also you know you're a smart dude and capable of self-reflection. x.com/pmarca/status/…

@kneath sounds personal

I’m trying hard to keep this new phase of social media focused on building and where I see the world going. But you know, long ago I worked with a16z as they tried to help me “fix” GitHub’s growth in 2012. There’s something you should know about Marc. He’s a fucking talentless tool. Ben is the one with talent. Here’s an outhouse (the bonehouse) I built this summer. I made it out of trees we milled on site with the help of Pat. Pat is a great guy. Fuck Marc Andreessen.

@rcrowley Oh, and I guess also Marc is a talent-less hack who spreads shit into the world while his business partner generates all of the value of his fund. I don't know. It felt correlated to the building I take shits in.

Look, I was going to go on to describe the talent-less hacks and how they tried to argue that "the rate of the rate of the growth" is a thing, but I really enjoyed making this little building I take shits in. This little building brings me a lot of joy. Even when I'm having spicy poops. And it felt important to share that.

@dodeja Nothing more personal than building the place where you shit.

Dude, this is so good. It’s exactly where my head is at. It also pairs perfectly with egghead’s insane sermon about the great men of history lacking introspection. You nailed the tone, cadence, and sarcasm for my mix of brain chemistry and brought a ton of joy to my morning. Thanks for being you so well, and bringing some laughter into my life.

AI is making CEOs delusional

@fffffffabian @Shpigford Bro I'm still out here dropping shit in the real world every day. But yeah, keep an eye on warpspire.com and thoseasters.com. I'm absolutely deep into a tear of sharing more again.

@kneath @Shpigford are we about to get a @kneath drop soon?!?

I haven't had this much fun building things with computers since 2007. I'm up late building shit, writing, sketching in my backyard all day. I'm playing with new toys people are building. Just look at this silly thing an old pal (@Shpigford) built: studio.neato.fun It's given me an energy I desperately needed to escape from the bullshit three-ring circus that is the world right now. It's also absolutely destroying my sleep schedule. I just went to bed at 8pm and woke up at 4am. Feels like I'm 23.

@zeeg To me, it's about removing the bullshit. Easier to get started because no more dev environment bullshit. Easier to get past bugs. Easier to get past blockers. The productivity gains come from keeping you in flow and immersed in the problem.

im fully convinced that LLMs are not an actual net productivity boost (today) they remove the barrier to get started, but they create increasingly complex software which does not appear to be maintainable so far, in my situations, they appear to slow down long term velocity

Within the scope of software companies, my view is that these gains are VERY REAL in a way previous promises (Slack, JIRA, etc) were always fantasies. Millions of "programmers" are going to lose their job because they never provided value to customers. Tech companies are filled with cruft and bullshit right now. At the same time, thousands of Bosses are going to destroy their companies because they don't understand this technology at all and see it as a replacement for humans.

I think at this point, every coder gets it. We are going to see Bosses use this new technology to wreak havoc on the knowledge work economy. Some of it will be warranted. A lot of it won’t. I wrote this to help my friends. What do you think? warpspire.com/handbook

I regret to inform you that I am back on my bullshit again. I’ve built some houses. I’ve made some great friends. I’ve fucked up, failed hard, and come back up. I have some chainsaws and a Mac Studio running agents in the basement. I’m not here to fuck spiders. Let’s do this.

Learn to swim.

The billionaires think they own it. But it is a thing that cannot be owned. It is a thing easily stolen and copied. It runs better on the billionaire's machines. But it runs pretty fucking good on your machine too.

Three decades of programmers building riddle machines has entirely unwound in the space of months.