Can a platform be simple enough for your first line of code, and yet powerful enough for a global top 30 website? This question is key to understanding the philosophy of Guillermo Rauch (Guillermo Rauch), founder and CEO of Vercel, which I interviewed in our latest podcast episode!

This is not a real struggle, and it is sad that many people have come to think this way. Equality means equality of opportunity, which is *beneficial* to excellence, for the same reason why we fight monopolies. There are *bad* equality policies for sure — but that doesn’t mean

Alright, here it it after literally years of tinkering, months of research and weeks of writing, re-rewriting, editing, cutting and incorporating feedback, my piece on the Four “Real-World” Foundational Engineering Manager Archetypes is out! Link 👇

Great Pod with Vercel founder. Especially interested in the "#react is the last framework claim". Thanks to Luca Rossi ꩜ for great content open.spotify.com/episode/2K73fs…

We nailed real-world archetypes for Staff Engineers. Why haven’t we be able to do the same for Engineering Managers (EMs)? Staff+ models (like Will Larson’s book) identify leverage modes: Solver, Tech Lead, Architect, Right Hand. They’re sticky. Scalable. Identity-based.

Honestly this looks mostly great. There are issues but they seem easy to fix. We shouldn’t fixate on details or the very current state. The direction is amazing IMO

Reality is complex but you can follow a simple heuristic: never

An important consequence of this is that—counterintuitively—many people will more likely shell $200 on a wrapper that they trust to pick the best model every time, vs a single model provider that may not be the best anymore at some point

The most insane part to me in the whole Chrome v Perplexity story is how Chrome is valued *only* 2x Perplexity. As much as I like Perplexity, hard to find a better example of how inflated AI valuations are.

My main issue with this approach is that — aside from all the questionable engineering stuff that we all know — it doesn’t actually save time. It is faster to just open a repo and just ship stuff on Vercel.

They finally made it — everything above the fold in google results is an ad