September 4th 2021
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Making the web faster at ▲Vercel while bootstrapping SaaS on the side. Currently building tryslater.com ⏰
Hey there, AI is here to stay as part of your workflow. Why isn't it showing up in productivity numbers like public company earnings, GDP, or number of Jira tickets completed in a sprint? It's a good question — my thoughts on it here: https://drew.tech/posts/dev-efficiency tldr: Sandbagging AI often writes sub-senior eng quality code Large code diffs are hard to reason about So what to do? Figure out how to get past these. Don't sandbag. Push AI to meet your quality bar with prompts, rules,...
Hey there, It's been a while since my last update. I've written a few essays and recorded my first podcast. Sales While I can't connect the dots yet (btw, read the new Steve Jobs book), I'm certain learning sales will be one of the major drivers of my success in the coming years. Read more here: https://drew.tech/posts/learning-sales-as-an-engineer. AI trends Lots of folks are pontificating about AI without building anything. I don't plan to be one of them. AI will dramatically change the...
Hey y'all, I've been working on SoloSync, which syncs changes from Salesforce to Notion. I'm scratching my own itch, so I wanted to test demand prior to writing too much code. Can I acquire a customer for less than one year's contract value ($99 * 12 months)? The number we're chasing here is called ROAS or return on ad spend. The higher ROAS is, the closer you are to an infinite money glitch. Here's how I tested demand. Step one: MVP My MVP is: A landing page (built with TailwindUI & Next.js...