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A Year of Decisions at Knapsack

Last year, I made the decision to join Knapsack, a design systems startup, as a Staff Engineer.

"You did WHAT?"

Is the first comment I get from friends and folks in my network. I get it ! I was "fiercely independent" for about a decade. Building startups and consulting with amazing record labels, game devs and other non-enterprise folk.

Well here's my summary: I went looking for the AI-native action, and found that – in three different ways – everywhere I expected the action to be, it had already moved: from the delivery surface to the decision surface.

I love developing, again

I'm writing this today to remind myself: I actually do love developing. I do love the moment of sitting in my editor, with a challenge or idea, and writing an elegant solution to it.

Running an app on production – is a different beast. A nearly joy-less scenario. Its all remedial! Its scaling, bug-finding, performance tuning, conflict merges, security audits, etc. It's a lot of work. All the benefits come from that software's near-invisibility to the customer who uses it.