Hackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers.
Before 'developer' was a job title, makers called themselves hackers. A refusal to separate thinking from doing. The 'engineer' replacement lost something.
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Companies that truly leverage AI will be new ones that start without legacy employees, not incumbents replacing them.
AI winners won't be retraining 50,000 people to use copilots—they'll be founded by people who never built the old workflows. Incumbency is the moat in reverse.
It's harder to read code than to write it.
Joel's first law: reading is the bottleneck, not writing. The Netscape 6 disaster, 25 years on, is still the textbook case of corporate amnesia about rewrites.