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If you were Elon you would claim it's an early alpha of a world simulator that in a year will be able to perfectly predict weather and stock market.

TL;DR summary by claude.ai:

Here is a summary of the key points in the text:

- The text is written from the perspective of a "grug brain developer" who tries to keep things simple and avoid complexity.

- Complexity is portrayed as an evil spirit demon that infects codebases. The grug developer recommends using the word "no" to avoid unnecessary complexity.

- Prototyping and integration testing are advocated over extensive upfront design and unit testing. Writing tests later in development is recommended.

- Abstractions and over-engineering should be avoided early in projects. Let the shape of the system emerge first.

- Refactoring should be done carefully and in small steps. Big refactors often fail.

- Tools, especially debuggers and code completion, are highly valued to aid thinking.

- Simple and layered APIs are preferred over complex academic ones. Put APIs on the objects that use them.

- Frontend complexity with JavaScript frameworks is warned against. Keep things simple on the frontend.

- New fads and ideas should be taken with skepticism. Most ideas are recycled.

- Admitting when things are too complex is encouraged over fear of looking dumb.

- Imposter syndrome is common but can be overcome by realizing everyone feels that way.

The overall message is to keep software development simple, avoid premature complexity, let systems emerge organically, and not overthink things.

TL;DR anyone? I couldn't care less about communication skills of Andy and whether some meeting was in person, before even getting a hint of what is the point of that post.

Where the materials for all the batteries will come from?

Me and people close to me been a witness to a startup demise several times. In a startup it's really easy to tell - the product falls short of revenues/active users expectations, the funding starts to run out, the management starts to act frantic and invents all kinds of "creative" ways to "revive" the product, core team members start departing :)