csummers
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
I'm building Hot Dev, a backend workflow platform.
- Hot: a functional, expression-based language w/ types for easy integrations and built-in parallel constructs
- Event Handlers drive execution `on-event: "user:created"`
- Scheduled Events `schedule: "every hour"`
- MCP: Turn any Hot function into an MCP Tool
- API: Real-time access to running tasks; subscribe to workflow Streams with SSE updates
- Observability: System-level dashboard; Call-level tracing; Alerts to email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook
- Develop locally, push to production with `hot deploy`
- Coming Soon: Hot Box - run any OCI container as a Hot function
One of the benefits of LLM usage is to figure out the boundaries of your own knowledge and that of humanity's existing knowledge--at least for the LLM's training data.
Enumerating through existing options and existing solutions to problems gets you to the knowledge boundary sooner--where the real work begins! While faster with LLMs, I don't see this process as much different than bouncing ideas off of colleagues (and critiquing your own thoughts).
However, the difference is likely human's unpredictable ability to apply creativity throughout the process...such that a new solution may arise at any point and leap-frog existing solutions/explanations. (Think Einstein taking known data from Lorentz, Michelson, Morley plus Maxwell's equations on light and coming up with special relativity.)
My tooling was previously adding in AI hints with CLAUDE.md, Cursor Rules, Windsurf Rules, AGENTS.md, etc., but I recently switched to using only AGENTS.md and SKILLS. I appreciate the standardization from this perspective.
Bah! Two weeks or bust? This is a very short-sited viewpoint: think long term! Slow down and think about what another 3 or 6 months of runway would do for your company and product.
You have skills people want. Do some consulting and give yourself a longer runway. If you truly believe you've got a good product and business on your hands, then find a way to keep it going even if it's on the side while you do a consulting gig. (I know split-focus for a few months is not ideal, but "two weeks or bust" seems like a poor alternative.)
I guess this is a pretty common problem. The blog post I wrote about it in 2005 continues to be the most searched-for entry point on my site: http://csummers.com/2005/12/20/undelete-text-files-on-linux-...