Cap Ybarra

nearly thirty years ago i saw a guy stand up in an all hands staff meeting, declare "this is stupid", walk out and never come back, and friends, there's not a single day of 2026 I haven't thought of him

DID YOU KNOW

before language models could extrude code, there was no way to

* automate things
* make things simpler
* reduce boilerplate
* write unit tests
* learn how things work

fortunately you can now send all your money to an oligarch to do these things poorly