Quoting Paul Graham on starting a software startup:

If you want to start a software startup, you should still learn to program. Even if AI writes most of your code, you’ll still be in the position of an engineering manager, and to be a good engineering manager you have to be a programmer yourself.

But there’s another even more important reason to learn to program. That’s how you get ideas for startups: when you look around the world with a programmer’s eye, you see all the things that could be built but haven’t been yet.

If you have the ability to exercise agency, you will find a way to get things done. The easiest way to get things done is do it first in your head.

ref: https://x.com/paulg/status/1947639333214687700

~ updated at: 2025-07-22T13:39:22.071Z

it’s not agi if it starts every reply with “you’re absolutely right”

~ updated at: 2025-07-22T01:16:05.206Z