Engineering productivity in large mobile apps remains a hard problem with few easy solutions.
Mobile dev productivity is software's unluckiest area — huge repos, big teams, no off-the-shelf fix. The answer: a platform team, not a faster compiler.
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Paul GrahamA compact essay on why the relationship between effort and reward in many creative and technical fields is not linear but superlinear — and what that implies for how you allocate your time.
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Every layer we stack between ourselves and the metal eventually breaks. The fix isn't a better abstraction—it's knowing what's underneath when it does.
A practitioner's case for treating distributed-systems thinking as a default skill, not a specialist one, as single-machine assumptions keep breaking in production.