David Senra
@dhh on how @tobi saw the potential of AI before most others: “The difference between a great racer and a mediocre racer is very often where do they look? If you're looking at the turn-in where you're supposed to turn, and not at the apex —you're not going to hit it. You go where you look. Don't look at the tree or you'll steer right into it. And training your eyes to look further ahead is actually quite difficult in racing, and I think it's quite difficult in business and life in general. And Tobi had an eye that was just looking further ahead than I was. And he was going "Yeah but it's [AI] not going to be like this forever.” Intuitively had this understanding of the evolution. And I'm still not entirely sure what did he see? Why didn't I see it? And I'm actually a little frustrated on my own behalf that I did not have the same conviction as Tobi did as early as he did, towards seeing yeah you don't like it right now but just imagine two more years of this. And he wrote a memo to the company internally I think in '23 or early '24 way before agents were doing the work on their own going: I've seen it. This is the big switch. This is what we've been waiting for. This is why I'm here as CEO to identify those kind of discontinuations in the trend line. We need to be a very different company to be able to position ourselves for that and take advantage of that.”
David Senra
My conversation with @dhh, co-founder of @37signals. 0:00 Cutting Rework From 50,000 Words To 25,000 2:54 Basecamp Was Built In 380 Hours 6:46 Unlimited Resources Build A Blob 10:22 Terminator Beats Avatar By A 1000x 15:24 The Printer DHH Never Wants To Upgrade 17:31 Millions In