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This is an email I sent to our leadership team a few minutes ago. We may be witnessing the third major leap in computing productivity, after high-level languages in the 1960s and spreadsheets in the 1980s In the last few weeks, AI coding really took off. Cursor, Cody, Replit Agents are FAR better than GitHub Copilot. Research on ~5,000 devs in Fortune 100 shows that even GitHub Copilot makes them ~25% more productive. ...

If you have a bunch of projects you could do, and want to decide which ones to take up, I was taught a rule: if a project has positive net present value, do it. That is, find out how much money you have to put in (& when), and how much you’ll get out (& when). Adjust for money today being worth more than money tomorrow. If it makes a profit, just do it. ...