Thorsten Ball
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488 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Sep
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So yeah, we don't have any segment analysis of who uses what and where and how.
there's always a hand hovering over the button to
Can we get rid of this?
Like can we shed weight?
Like can we get rid of ballast?
Like can we reduce complexity so we're again in this spot of if a new model comes out, we can react quickly and
You know, sure it's good engineering and there's not a lot of duplication, but still updating one client is still faster than updating two clients.
So there's this constant tension between what's the most minimal product that we can have.
And and you know, just to pick some other examples, there's a lot of niceties you can do in VS Code, where, for example, uh yeah, recent ex not recent, but a common example.
You know how in VS Code you can hover over diagrams.
Diagnostic, and then you can say, um, you know, fix this or whatever.
And then people would ask, can't you add like a let amp fix this button?
And it's like
You can also AMP knows about your selection, it knows about the diagnostics, it can see all of this.
So you can just ask, like, fix this for me.
And if you type three words, it will usually do it.
So that's something where it's like, well, you can already do it.
It's a nicety, but let's remove this surface area.
Let's remove this other thing that we have to backport or keep working or whatnot.
And tiny example, but there's a you know, five hundred of these where we say.
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