Swizec Teller

@Swizec

Best selling author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through The Hockeystick book ⏵ scalingfastbook.com blog ⏵ swizec.com

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Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Dec 8, 2025
hockeystick moments are the biggest opportunity of your career. It's exciting and kinda scary. Everything changes! I wrote Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick as your guide. 16 years of startup experience condensed into 240 pages scalingfastbook.com
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Swizec Teller
@Swizec
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Maybe Plasmidsaurus broke my brain (biotech) but I increasingly think of coding systems in a biology metaphor - running system - agents make changes - agents validate - agents find problems - agents patch things - ship all the time - feels random but keeps working agents can be
Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Sep 15
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Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Sep 14
AI is RAG all the way down. Retrieving relevant context is the whole secret sauce unless you're building a custom foundational model
David Cramer
@zeeg
Sep 14
I continue to believe memory is the most interesting and under invested space right now
Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Sep 14
This sounds like everything I've wanted our design linter to be. Time to migrate
shadcn
@shadcn
Sep 14
Introducing shadcn/lint. An agent-first linter for Tailwind design systems. You define what’s allowed. When an agent breaks a rule, the error explains what’s wrong and how to fix it using your components, variants and theme. There’s a lot you can do with this. Let me show you
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