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Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence After Unlimited Code Generation
The End of Feedback
 • Scott Werner
From Nodes to Stories, Fiction as a Tool for Thinking
On Saturday I wrote about what happens when a fundamental input gets cheap and new categories of activity explode in ways nobody predicts.
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The Great Zipper of Capitalism
On Pizzas, CSVs, and Building for Markets That Don't Exist Yet
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As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material
There’s this talk from 1997 that I keep bringing up on here, but there’s a different part I want to call to your attention this time.
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The Discovery Phase Is All There Is
Or: Documents Retrieved from the Department of Best Practices, Third Sub-Basement, The Building
 • Scott Werner
The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting
Or: The Beaver Who Learned To Measure Twice
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What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?
There’s a mass of data that holds a shape you can’t quite name.
 • Scott Werner
How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter
Looking Back on 2025
 • Scott Werner
Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem
Michelangelo supposedly said the statue already existed in the marble, he simply removed everything that wasn't David.
 • Scott Werner
Works on My Machine
Works on My Machine
Delving into the future of software and work in a post-LLM world
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