The most dangerous decisions a software architect makes.

When designing a system from scratch, you’ll easily make 50+ architectural decisions.
But 3–5 of them determine whether the whole system succeeds or collapses.

I call them Big Bang Decisions 🧵

Ideas for new products 🧵
A successful product solves real problems people have.
Not imaginary problems invented by the founder 😁

So the real question is:
How do you actually find real problems?

Viral Trends and Pure Idiocy 😁

Clawdbot is a useful messenger UI for AI. Not magic.
Yet people:
* buy Mac minis
* burn money on APIs
* give bots passwords
* delegate life to agents with prompt injection

The tool is fine. The hype is the problem.

A bank fired 1,000 people for “low productivity” based on mouse clicks and keystrokes 🤡
Some of them were promoted for high performance a month earlier.
When you can’t measure real impact, you measure nonsense.
Then people start gaming the system.
Thoughts?

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