Guns, Lots of Guns: There Is No Silver Bullet

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Asserts Fred Brooks is still right there is no silver bullet for inherent software complexity and the industry instead scales by piling up many tools and abstractions: GitHub/GitLab, serverless platforms, managed services, feature toggles and NoCode/LowCode stacks. Reports interviewing 30 startups and doing due diligence on 5–6 show widespread tech debt and throwaway prototypes that never get rebuilt, so the remedy is many small bets not one miracle — fail cheap workflows, automate everything, test in production, optimize onboarding under 15–40s — with only 24–26 million developers worldwide.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:34Generation cohorts
3. 4:03Gen Z
4. 6:36Who am I?
5. 10:43The tar pit: Mythical Man-month
6. 16:51Conway's Law
7. 18:00No silver bullet
8. 25:00Did agile improve software?
9. 32:59I know how I got here
10. 36:24Lakruzz' Law
11. 37:17Fail cheap
12. 42:02DevOps for startups
13. 47:27Aesthetics
14. 48:15DevX
15. 51:13Outro

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