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Cool post! Would love to try this with some of my own texts. How did you get Ollama to generate text based in your source texts?

Thank you for sharing. I just read through several of your blog posts and especially resonate with your “evolutionary design”. The idea of integration tests/test harness first over unit tests makes a lot of sense to me too. As a one person team myself, the “art” of creating quality software products, at speed, is revealing itself and is quite fascinating.

It’s not everyday that devs like me get to learn from someone with as much experience as you have. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

As a solo dev, "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" coupled with ruthless focus and prioritization has resulted in the biggest increases in my productive output.

None of the OP’s tips for increasing product velocity apply to my company. The essence of product velocity reveals itself when N=1.

Focus on a few things. Don’t rush, do them well. Say no to everything else.

Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel

Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer

The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch

A Philosophy of Software Design, John Ousterhout

“Hyper growth mode” = hiring as fast as possible. Startups gotta borrow and spend their way to success, and fast, ya know. Can’t keep the VC’s waiting on their returns.

Humans will try to dogmatize anything. And overcomplicate everything.

I love the way you put that. Thank you for sharing.

How’d you get $70K in credits for which Stripe fees wouldn’t be applied?

Can you share a bit about what they did well in the behavioral interviews? Do you have specific examples? Would love to learn some best practices

You got this! Second looks really cool. Fellow solo founder here, definitely going to try it out

Anyone have recommendations for how to get a code mentor? Aside from people at work. I work for myself, by myself now.

I want to write better quality code: less fragile, easier to change. Which is something I haven’t really done for one reason or another. Now, to level up my development skills, I just finished reading Philosophy of Software Design, Clean Architecture, and Design Patterns. I guess Stackoverflow is a good place for me to get most questions answered. But I like the idea of an “in-person” mentor who can help me discover things I don’t know I don’t know. Things about the general “art” of being a good developer that seems to encompass much more than just knowledge about what good code is like.