Hot Takes

Not the most fully fleshed-out ideas in the world, but I am convinced of the veracity of these.

• Emacs is a bigger productivity boost for most developers than GitHub Copilot will ever be
• Technical debt is not by itself a problem: it merely worsens already existing problems
• “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” (Solow’s Paradox)
• Industrial software development has become so complex in its practices that we can no longer expect innovative software product launches
  • in a sense, this follows from Dan McKinley’s metaphor of innovation tokens