Sunday Letters
Sam SchillaceHow to think like a programmer, letters to my younger self, and system thinking
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Cranky Old Sam
(a brief post - written before I left on vacation).
At some point, my engineering team at Microsoft decided that it would be cool if they had a “crusty old engineer” agent that reviewed their designs from a seasoned (if slightly jaded) sy...
There is no answer without a question
Curiosity is a hard thing to cultivate in yourself. It’s easy to settle into the familiar - efficient, even. Habits and patterns are natural things for all of us, and being curious, discontented, and trying new things is often hard.
But c...
How did you think of Google Docs?
I gave a talk this past week at Stanford - a friend asked me to come in on short notice, and we had a good, informal conversation with a room full of very curious students. It was great to see!
I got asked a question that I get asked ofte...
The Hard Problem of Attention
Like everyone else in the programming world, I’ve spent a bunch of time in the past few months writing “agentic” code. On the one hand, working with frontier models (and a nice budget) is incredibly productive. But it’s also, as most people...
Artisans and Factory Lines
I always just one shot these for fun. I guess they’ve solved the text problem. Probably I shouldn’t have told it to be “complete and capture all the ideas” 😂
For most of the computing history, software has worked by turning meaning into s...
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