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Post #1123569

2026-04-07 17:34 UTC

The Building Block Economy. https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-block-economy The most effective way to build software and get massive adoption is no longer high quality mainline apps but via building blocks that enable and encourage others to build quantity over quality.

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  • @mhitza@third-party.cyou 2026-04-08 00:39

    @mitchellh reasonable argument building on the back of what you're doing with Ghostty, and the effects you're seeing. You're the only person I follow from the "AI proponent sphere", and I think your attention to quality is higher than other people co-building with AI. At least that what's I've seen from your posts, even if you state that overall the quality bar is lower. But I cannot ignore, than in my "informational and experience bubble", there has been a degradation of service quality, and support, across the corporate world, in the last 6-9 months while vibe coding has picked up. I would hope that companies will pay the anti-UX cost with user retention, as to give rise to more human-serving software. But one can only hope while the world is inching towards a "rewrite often, refactor almost never" approach; while actively unlearning practices that are to the benefit of the user.

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