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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
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    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
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    “Look I built this cool thing isn’t it great!?” 2020: omg what’s your IDE color scheme 2026: omg what’s your agent harness
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    Once this design system migration is done, I should write about how AI has completely changed my attitude to massive rewrites. Manning asked me to write that [abandoned] book about Rewrites some 3 years too early
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    Aug 10
    LLMs are a high int low wis character Just because the intern is wicked smart and types super hella fast doesn't mean you can stop being the senior grownup engineer in the room
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    Adam Rackis
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    Aug 10
    This is an under-appreciated point. No matter how good models get, how certain can you be about your own ability to prompt perfectly, without ambiguity. Even solid tests would not prevent this scenario. Obv don't read every line of jsx but jfc read the important bits