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Yeah, thanks for having me and thanks for coming all the way to Miami.
that this itself is not enough like this itself will not get us to better software i've always said the easiest products are ones that you can use yourself and obviously we built open code so that our team can use it and it's like we are the customers of the product uh so we use it aggressively as much as anyone else can and of course it is we build it so we think it's useful and we use it every day and it's a critical part of our workflows but
All the old problems that I've always struggled with are still there.
I'm working as hard as I ever have.
I'm struggling as hard as much as I ever have.
So a lot of the job has become easier.
But yeah, it's a weird feeling because objectively stuff has become easier.
But then why am I like thinking as hard as I ever have?
You know, it's a weird feeling to have both those things be true.
I mean, there's different, there's different life cycles, different companies.
There's like pre-product market fit.
There's achieved product market fit, which is kind of where we are.
And there's companies that are like,
have had probably market fit for like a decade.
And I imagine that things look very different across these three.
For us, pre-private market fit, to me, it doesn't really help that much because you're trying to figure out what you should be doing.
And yeah, like maybe it helps you swing a lot, but I've always thought it's better to think a lot instead of swinging a lot.
I think you can eliminate a lot of ideas or directions just by, you know, spending a lot of time in your head and with your team talking.
Obviously, AI doesn't speed that part up.
We're at the phase where we've achieved product-market fit.