Swizec Teller

hockeystick moments are the biggest opportunity of your career. It's exciting and kinda scary. Everything changes! I wrote Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick as your guide. 16 years of startup experience condensed into 240 pages scalingfastbook.com

Better than a birthday cake

Birthday run with sister! She a spartan weirdo says not enough obstacles

Agent this agents that and it's all just Domain Driven Development same as it always has been. Guess what, agents write better code faster using less tokens when your words map directly to objects. AND you continue to understand the system even if you don't read every line

Building a habit of saying "This is a distraction" after sharing dumb exciting ideas with the team. Wish me luck

Perfect running weather today, a little moist not too hot. Good pace

Building outcome-focused engineering teams sounds easy in a book but in practice you’re saying “Ok so what does all that mean for the user?” over and over until you retire if you’re lucky others start saying it for you

Perhaps the most exciting part of all this agentic stuff: No more tech debt! You can actually finish migrations now 😍 swizec.com/blog/no-more...

You could clean house right now by reposting software engineering lessons from the 80's but add "agentic" to the title 🤔

So weird thing about being manager – if you're bad at focus your team is bad at focus How do I get better at focus when claude and friends make it so easy to start a bunch of things in parallel?

Amazing stuff. We've been using Start in production for 2 years. Love

Sometimes management is just giving people the exact next step so they stop overthinking doesn't matter if the step is wrong, they'll figure it out, you're giving them the freedom to get to work by implicitly taking any heat for outcomes

Huge shoutout to late-20’s Swizec for getting into personal finance and setting up a bunch of stuff. San Francisco daycare rates are absolutely murderous but we’ll be fine. Probably.

Shortened run today but tried for faster pace. Got my best 5k of the year 💪

how do I make codex (on ipad) stop asking stupid questions this is so annoying

Had our first UX roast sesh with the team. Why did nobody tell me how awesome these are? Great way to review features at a high level that you can’t get into in PRs

oh neat! when did apple's fake bokeh become smart enough to sharpen everything at the correct focal distance even if not part of the primary subject?

Perspective on how software engineering has changed from a real company with real stakes and a sane token budget swizec.com/blog/when-co...

Software engineering has changed in the last 2 years. Here's how that looks without the fluff. Real company, big stakes, finite token budget swizec.com/blog/when-co...

This is going to be my first design system migration where we hit 100% old code deleted Completely unimaginable a few years ago.

I like that agents ended the MPA vs SPA debate. You need an API for tools, might as well use it in your UI

Disgustingly hot today for long runs had to take a shortcut back home. Still not feeling back in shape, legit made me feel nauseous after

TIL I described vibe coding 1 month before Karpathy publicly invented the term, but did a way poorer job branding the concept or talking about it swizec.com/blog/coachin...

you feel young and then the optometrist hits you with the “it might be time for a reading prescription”

my DJ persona (I lost my glasses in a waymo yesterday)

I love that Apple Health has this feature that lets you track the age of your baby

wait is a workstream just something that has a VP?

super excited for jev-like classifiers, fits a nice sweet spot above LLM and below custom training for a lot of real-world usecases I'm facing - LLM when you don't yet know the question you're asking, - Jev-like once you learn the question and a working rubric, swizec.com/blog/why-im-...

A lot of “I’ll just make my own” vibe coders gonna learn an important lesson

Monday is really a lot more chill if you play some catchup Sunday evening this feels like a slippery slope

the hard parts of building a business are - solving a real problem for real people - ignoring shiny ideas that are fun but distracting - prioritizing boring stuff that moves the needle - connecting with customers if anything, AI makes it *harder* to build a successful business

I did it! First run to bridge and back after knee surgery

Actually going super well. Letting agents rip on a huge design system migration has improved our codebase in measurable ways. fewer typescript error better react doctor scores more readable composition improved file structure fantastic UX

oh this is fun, my `gh auth login` now redirects to crypto, porn, and other bad sites it sent me to github.cm/auth/login instead of github.com/auth/login and I didn't notice fab 🙃 also how ...

Ok this looks pretty sick

my favorite page of @typesafeai.bsky.social docs: "Here's what Jev can't do" we need more of this ❤️

we've auto-approved and merged 14 pull requests and nothing blew up maybe time to broaden the rules

The podcasters are wrong, cold showers suck. Especially If you were looking forward to a nice warm one

Maybe Plasmidsaurus broke my brain (biotech) but I increasingly think of coding systems in a biology metaphor - running system - agents make changes - agents validate - agents find problems - agents patch things - ship all the time - feels random but keeps working agents may be human or not

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Went for a test drive in a Rivian R2 and it’s definitely a driving appliance. I wants it and it accelerates fast enough to upset the missus 😈