Comma

Comma is a cool company. I went here for Comma Hack 4 in San Diego.

Some things that I learned

Biggest thing I’m learning:

  • The things that I am going to currently work on are going to be called frivolous a decade from now. Nothing you work on will be permanent.
  • On the mechanical side, the things that you learn are way more permanent.

Practically:

  • I have seen issues running a VSCode terminal on the comma. Because the VSCode takes up too much compute

Comma Body Logs

The reason there is so much revolution is due to the really short prototyping type of software.

  • Like anyone can write stuff that they want

I think that you will see the same thing with AI generating code.

Mechanical Engineering being grounded in Physics, while Software Engineering is grounded in Engineering.

Should I need to think so hard about the future?

  • Also, build foundation for how to tackle the world

https://twitter.com/BrianJJi/status/1708332872682098836 (i) think very hard / concretely about the future (ii) do not substitute education for thought (iii) avoid hyper-competition; do not do what everyone else is doing (iv) identify areas of innovation at the frontier; do new things there