Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 21/09/2026Seems like the vibe coding excitement is ebbing a bit after people realized AI doesn’t solve distribution for them 010
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 06/09/2026I moved from pressing enter to answering "agreed" on questions I don't understand. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 07/08/2026It was an incredibly hot summer so no better way to spend your time than going to the mountains. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 04/08/2026I'm happy I did this hike, but I'll definitely only ever do it once. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 28/07/2026I yet have to find a male one to get in front of my lens, which is a good reason to come back to Norway. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 26/07/2026We need a word for an AI thinking that something is expensive and will take a lot of time because it was trained on a corpus where that was still true. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 21/07/2026Some places change how you think about distance. Kyrgyzstan is one of them. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 17/07/2026If I describe Cornwall as 'pleasant', does that make me British? 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 12/07/2026Unless you still intend to write code yourself, stack should be decided based on fit for agentic coding. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 07/07/2026Somehow Claude managed to make me believe that the breadth of my English vocabulary is lacking. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 05/07/2026One big advantage of being a builder now (vs an incumbent), is that you can actually build AI first products from the ground up. Instead of a tool with a chatbot slabbed on top, an experience that's actually different. 010
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 04/07/2026You need two things to be happy: meaningful relationships and work that provides purpose. People who believe humans don't want to work, learn, or move their body anymore just because an AI/Robot will do the thing in the future, miss the most important part of the equation. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 04/07/2026When you find yourself not wanting to do marketing or sales, not willing to speak to the merits of your product, then, maybe, you're actually excited about the technical problem, not so much about putting a solution into people's hands. 010
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 04/07/2026This has probably always been true: you need to be obsessed about the problem; only then will you have the endurance to make the solution a success. What changed is that virtually anything you considered tedious, necessary evils, are almost fully solved problems. It's time to be a builder. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 04/07/2026Working out products with an LLM has an interesting property: if you force yourself to not suggest any parts of the technical solution and focus entirely on the problem space, you don't accidentally fall in love with any part of the solution. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 03/07/2026Ok I'll call it. Fable feels pretty sloppy. No life changing results to be seen, at best a small iteration from Opus, but I don't feel it at all. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 30/06/2026Wanted a kayak, got a floatie. Apparently the harbour waves are too dangerous. 010
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 26/06/2026I have yet to find a better place to drink coffee in the morning. 110
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 19/06/2026Took me a minute to realise what I was looking at. Didn't expect northern lights this far south. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 16/06/2026Tbilisi flea markets sell everything. Soviet military coats included. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 09/06/2026The real superpower of the business of one is obsession that doesn’t need to be projected, and an infinite run rate. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 09/06/2026A good chunk of building great products is reducing friction to a point where users just slide through and wonder how they could have ever lived without this. 020
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 09/06/2026Now that Claude Fable is out, I'm immediately going to backstab Opus and declare all their work as one of an inexperienced junior dev that needs to be fixed 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 29/05/2026Waiting for the clouds to decide between dramatic and just grey. 010
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 16/05/2026Priority scores replace your sense of what matters with a number. paragraph.com/@manual/the-tool-shou… 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 16/05/2026Collect freely. Commit deliberately. Everything else is sorting. paragraph.com/@manual/the-distincti… 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 15/05/2026Some companies have entire roles dedicated to maintaining the project management tool. Not the projects. The tool. paragraph.com/@manual/the-tool-beca… 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 15/05/2026When people think of Europe's Architecture, they probably mostly think of Italy. 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 15/05/2026The gap between deciding and doing is the competitive variable now. paragraph.com/@manual/the-disruptio… 000
Cordt @cordt.zermin.de · 14/05/2026The question that matters each morning: what am I staying with? paragraph.com/@manual/attention-is-… 010