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AI has not helped me even a little bit.
I mean, it's years of experience in situations of the right feedback loop, right?
When I mess something up, I get a literal human yelling at me and saying horrible things about me.
When I design something poorly, I have to slog through the code base and do something that should have been easy that's a lot harder now.
Yeah, so for us, it's all about making sure everyone on the team has those feedback loops.
No one is insulated.
When you're in that type of environment,
even for just like a couple months you just get so much so much better and i think a lot of organizations uh it's hard to keep that type of situation as your company grows i think it's probably impossible um so if you mostly worked at larger companies this is probably the thing that you've never fully experienced i've been at companies where the product team would want to like ship something faster so they'll cut stuff to get it out sooner
the pain is not felt by them it's felt by their support team the support team deals with the angry people and the support team fixes things manually for them and the engineering and private team are like you know hey we did it we shift the feature and they don't realize that there's like a side effect that they created so yeah like really being in that feedback loop just makes you makes you better uh and then caring a lot about building something for a lot of people i think this is another thing that uh you don't have to try to build stuff for millions of people i'm not saying you have to do that but
It is very interesting to have that perspective of and make something that works for the whole market.
It's so hard to do that.
There's so many different environments, people, workflows, preferences, constraints.
If you adopt that mindset, the stuff you work on makes no sense to anyone else observing things.
They think that everything you're doing is wrong.
They think you're focusing on the wrong stuff.
But if you really are going for the whole market, you just start to think very differently.
Yeah, so we're still figuring this out because we've grown a lot recently.
Like, we're at 20-something people now.