
 Breaking Change v42.0.1 - Scott Werner: Ignore all previous instructions
🔥Hotfix🔥 is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of Sublayer, helps organize the Artificial Ruby meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremely well-named (and well-written) Substack, Works on my Machine.
In this conversation, we jointly grapple with WTF is happening to programming as a career. Did the unprecedented peacetime the software industry experienced from 2005-2022 make us all soft? Is the era of code-writing agents fundamentally changing the nature of the job? Should we be less like DHH/Matz and more like why the lucky stiff?
We'd love to get your feedback to podcast@searls.co — I'll read it all and flag relevant questions and comments for the next Breaking Change.
You can follow Scott Werner online at:
A handful of things we mentioned:
- There's no AI in Team
 - The Goal book
 - Lean Thinking vs Fat Thinking (a newsletter that draws a different lesson from The Goal)
 - why the lucky stiff (aka "_why")
 - That fireside chat between Matz and DHH
 - Sublayer's product, APM (Actions Per Minute)
 
