future
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🔌 API + CLI + Skills = the Future of AI Agents
DHH’s recent post offers a glimpse into the future: “So while we keep cooking on actually-useful native AI features in Basecamp, we’re launching a fully agent-accessible version today. We’ve revamped our API, created a brand-new CLI, and w…
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📝 Document "why" not "how"
Be kind to others (and your future self) and document why you did something. AI is pretty good at generating the “how” any time you need it, but only you know the “why” because you have that context.
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What is the role of vision?
Yesterday, we discussed the difficulty in predicting the future and the folly of “just-in-case” development. However, we should not discount the need for vision – the sense for where we need to go in the future. Not necessarily specifics, b…
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🔮 Preparing for the future
Yesterday, we discussed a fundamental characteristic of a platform: it will go places you never imagined. How do we prepare for this? There are two ways: Try to predict where things will go in the future and build specific features into yo…
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⏰ The present or the future?
Planning has its place – we need a vision for where we are going. But YOUR Platform is best focused on the present, not the future. Because the future of a complex system is pretty hard to predict. When we focus on improving our current eff…
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❓ But what if ...
In the last post, we discussed the fallacy of using complex technology when the scale does not justify it. But, what if we get a lot more customers, or sell a lot more systems? Should we not plan for the future now? Use technologies now tha…