There is some truth here but I find this take to be overly cynical.
I built Cronitor in 2014 not because I liked making dev tools or was even particularly good at it, but because in my day job at Zillow my team had a lot of problems with silently-failing cron jobs. I had friends who were developers at other companies so I had the ability to validate this problem with other people in my network.
With any business it’s very important to solve a real problem. Steve Jobs called this approach starting with the customer and working backwards to the technology. So, you build what you know you need, with the belief that you are not as different from your peers as you might think. In contrast we have a lot of people starting with LLM technology and trying to work backwards to customers. I think that’s the real honeytrap.
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There is some truth here but I find this take to be overly cynical.
I built Cronitor in 2014 not because I liked making dev tools or was even particularly good at it, but because in my day job at Zillow my team had a lot of problems with silently-failing cron jobs. I had friends who were developers at other companies so I had the ability to validate this problem with other people in my network.
With any business it’s very important to solve a real problem. Steve Jobs called this approach starting with the customer and working backwards to the technology. So, you build what you know you need, with the belief that you are not as different from your peers as you might think. In contrast we have a lot of people starting with LLM technology and trying to work backwards to customers. I think that’s the real honeytrap.