Oh man does this post resonate with me.

Production was the wall. Everyone hit it. It was the thing that separated the people who could from the people who could only talk about it.

That wall is gone. Or rather, it has been rented out.

And

It meant that anything which existed had, at minimum, survived the cost of being made. You know what I mean? Effort was a filter, and like all filters it was invisible until it was removed. Nobody shipped a thousand mediocre variations of a feature, because a thousand mediocre variations cost a thousand times as much as one. The economics enforced a floor.

That floor is now gone. And when the floor goes, the thing that decides what is worth keeping is no longer the cost of making it. It is you. Your judgement.

I've been thinking a lot about where my place is in this brave new world of AI. When the creation of a thing isn't the hard part, where to I fit?

Much like raf, I keep coming back to taste.

The next existential question, do I have good taste? I guess only time will tell.

[Taste] is unmeasurable, uncreditable, and invisible on a dashboard. You cannot point to the disasters it prevented, because prevented disasters leave no trace. You carry a cost—the extra hours, the returned work, the refusal to ship the fine thing when the right thing is still reachable—and you carry it alone, against an incentive gradient that runs the other way.

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Loved every minute of this.

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An excellent read. Gabe eloquently lays out a lot of my own feelings on building components and how much control you should hand over to your users. Content authors in my usual case, developers in his.

Sometimes your production and staging environments are a bit more different than you want them to be, for ... reasons.

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