Thorsten Ball
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488 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Sep
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Like it was state of the art, I don't know, maybe two years ago or something.
And now the world has changed completely and we know that this is not over yet.
Like that the changes are still coming.
So from an engineering and business perspective, this is priority number one.
Position yourself in a way that you can react to these changes and position your product and your expectations and your technical the code base in a way that lets you react to these things as fast as possible.
And then everything else flows from there.
Everything else we've done is basically based on this, like that everything can change at, you know, release of another model or something.
Yeah.
We've had this was radical in some sense that when we started it was Quinn and I
Working on Maine, no code reviews, nothing, and just pushing.
And it was like a personal project.
And I think we're both experienced engineers.
So it would be everybody owns their stuff.
You push, and if you break CI, you go and fix it, or if the other person is awake, you fix it or something.
And it seems like when you move this fast and you ship this often, you have, you know, throughout the day, there's like 15 decisions you have to make.
Where you have to flip between the duct tape, personal project mode, move fast, and the this is how they do it at Google mode.
And it, you know, requires a certain expertise or it requires also to be free from like the thinking of the last 15 years of like always do it like Google.
Like we always scale up.
And the base assumption between like the whole Google thing was always that, oh, we found product market fit, now we have a product, let's scale this up.
Right.
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