The document discusses tools for building the future and their impact. It notes that the speed of iteration matters and that countless hours are lost building administrative interfaces and integrations. It advocates building using a library of standardized reusable components and learning from blockchains about openness and lowering friction. Trends to watch include no-code, augmenting human intelligence with AI, and API-first and systems-level thinking.

1. Tools for building the future
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2. Affordances of our tools shape
how we approach problems

3. Speed of iteration matters

4. *A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github, Baishakhi et al., Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 10
Relative bug propensity of different programming languages*

5. Countless hours lost
on building:
• admin interfaces,
• dashboards,
• in-app messaging,
• custom integrations,
• custom monitoring,
• …

6. From SaaS …

7. … to CAD

8. Building bottom up using
a library of standardised
reusable components
(not only for code but
also economic dynamics,
processes, …)

9. What blockchains
teach us

10. Openness

11. Lower friction opens
new use cases

12. Build around incumbents &
(their) regulatory barriers to
entry

13. Economic ecosystems
(that work with openness/recombination)

14. Trends to look for be
at the forefront of

15. Companies will win
based on the strength of
their internal tooling

16. Nocode

17. From artificial intelligence
to augmenting human
intelligence

18. API-first

19. Systems thinking
&
problem decomposition

20. Questions
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