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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“Can we just linger on that advice that you’ve given, that small teams are better? I think that’s really less… Less is more.”
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- Lex Fridman
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- 12 Jul 2025
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…We now have a wonderful finance person, Ron, who actually ended up replacing something else we used to have. We used to have a full-time data analytics person who would do all sorts of insight mining for, “Why are people signing up for this thing?” We ran that for 10 years and realized, “You know what? If I can have either a data analytics person or an accountant, I’m picking the accountant.” I love this so much on so many levels. Can we just linger on that advice that you’ve given, that small teams are better? I think that’s really less… Less is more. What did you say before? “Worse is better”? Okay, I’m sorry. Worse is better on adoption with technology a lot of times.…
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