Video of this episode is up on YouTube:
🔥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)
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<description><![CDATA[<p>🔥<a href="/posts/whats-the-hot-fix/">Hotfix</a>🔥 is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of <a href="https://www.sublayer.com">Sublayer</a>, helps organize the <a href="https://www.artificialruby.ai">Artificial Ruby</a> meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremely well-named (and well-written) Substack, <a href="https://worksonmymachine.ai/">Works on my Machine</a>.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>We'd love to get your feedback to <a href="mailto:podcast@searls.co">podcast@searls.co</a> — I'll read it all and flag relevant questions and comments for the next Breaking Change.</p>
<p>You can follow Scott Werner online at:</p>
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<li><a href="https://worksonmymachine.ai/">Works on my Machine on Substack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/scottwernerd">@scottwernerd on Twitter/X</a></li>
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<p>A handful of things we mentioned:</p>
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<li><a href="/links/2025-08-03-there-is-no-ai-in-team/">There's no AI in Team</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951">The Goal</a> book</li>
<li><a href="https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/lean-thinking-vs-fat-thinking">Lean Thinking vs Fat Thinking</a> (a newsletter that draws a different lesson from The Goal)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff">why the lucky stiff</a> (aka "_why")</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBbHu-BKpQ">That fireside chat between Matz and DHH</a></li>
<li>Sublayer's product, <a href="https://actionsperminute.io/">APM (Actions Per Minute)</a></li>
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