Highlight from Stop Building AI Tools Backwards

Humans are really bad at “novel” innovation, which is a bit tragic because novel innovation seems to be the thing that the tech industry thinks of when it talks about developer productivity. We surround ourselves with the myth of the solo genius, we benchmark developers on individual contributions, and expect people to implement code by themselves. Yet, it turns out that sustained solo innovation is both extremely rare, and also not that important in the grand scheme of things.