How a startup loses its spark(blog.johnqian.com)
451 points by imadj | 230 comments
A blog essay on why engineering work at small seed-stage startups feels intoxicating and how that spark fades as companies grow larger.
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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design(zach.be)
290 points by laserduck | 240 comments
The UX Research Reckoning is Here(medium.com)
118 points by azhenley | 151 comments
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The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)
458 points by Improvement | 130 comments
A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it(switowski.com)
1399 points by switowski | 395 comments
A blog post by Sebastian Witowski recounting how his 2020 side project earned over $15,000 but became a maintenance burden he grew to hate.
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
1029 points by poisonfountain | 967 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.
I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure(coinerella.com)
631 points by willy__ | 321 comments
A blog post by a founder describing building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, the stack chosen, the difficulties, and unavoidable non-EU dependencies.
I let an AI run my startup for a week(daily.tinyprojects.dev)
45 points by tinyprojects | 43 comments
A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.
My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder(mtlynch.io)
962 points by mtlynch | 288 comments
Michael Lynch's annual retrospective on his sixth year as a bootstrapped solo founder, including his TinyPilot business.