Felix Rieseberg: commitment

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…how is that gonna work, right? In the, in the context of cowork and how we build it, I think it’s a bit of a combination. Like what the, the execution that gets cheap is not necessarily rebuilding all the primitives. I think our priori, there’s also not a lot of value in it. So for instance, my team did not think about rebuilding clock code. We’re like very much started with the. The core thesis of this should be Claude Code. Mm-hmm. And then we’ll like build things on top of it. The part of the execution that gets a little cheaper is like, how do you take all of these Lego pieces and put them together in a way that makes sense for users? It’s like actually valuable. You have so many different approaches now in terms of what kind of, what kind of things do you actually elevate to a primitive, do you strongly believe that all your products should be built by just combining primitive that the public also has available? Do you keep some things internal? Um, and I think that’s still evolving, but I think what’s probably gonna go away is like, I’m not sure if it’s gonna fully go away, but I’m gonna say, I think for me personally, I will probably no longer try to come up with a really good product without testing up with people. This is not a new concept, but wherever you used to have to make costly decisions around, do we pick technology A or technology B, or do we like, um, build it this way, build it the other way. I really strongly believe now you just build all of them and try them out with a small focus group and then whatever, whatever is better is what you go with. Right. And that, that is probably quite different even from how we maybe worked a year ago. Right. Like, I think, I think this happened very recently. Yeah. I started building something in on Electron since you’re here. Coincidence. Uh, but then Electron and like SQL Light are like, there’s like some issues that like between development and like, uh, building anyway. And I was like, let’s just rebuild the whole thing in Swift and just recreated the whole thing in Swift. And it’s like, I. It’s done.…

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