Notes
Fragments, principles, and things I keep relearning
Short observations from close to the machine. Some are conclusions. Some are arguments I am still having with myself.
Most dashboards are confessions. They show you everything the system failed to understand on its own.
machines The closer you get to the machine, the less patience you have for noise.
taste Performance problems are rarely technical at first. Usually they are decisions nobody wanted to make, showing up later as latency.
performance Brazil teaches you to build without the fantasy of infinite money, time, or bandwidth. It is a harder teacher than most accelerators, and a better one.
Brazil Good software feels like someone removed friction from reality. Bad software adds a meeting.
software A benchmark is a story a machine tells about itself on a good day.
performance The boring failures are the ones that cost people their week. Those are the ones worth fixing.
building Taste is mostly paying attention longer than other people find comfortable.
taste If the computer cannot explain what it is doing, that is the computer's bug, not the user's.
machines Most AI products are a prompt and a logo. The hard part is everything the demo skips.
AI You do not earn trust with features. You earn it the tenth time the machine does not let someone down.
building Hardware humbles you. It does not care about your roadmap.
hardware Scars are just documentation written in a hurry.
building Speed is a feature until it becomes the whole product. Then it is respect.
performance