Alex Lavaee(@alexlavaee):“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” We use buzzwords like orchestration, graphs, loops, runtimes, verification to be able to convey our thoughts but we don’t want to get hypnotized by the vocabulary. Shakespeare got it right. We need to ask ourselves if the system’s effects matches the promise behind the vocabulary. Ultimately, the intrinsic qualities of an object are more important than what it’s called. Building something that has reduced stress for someone working in a 10M+ LoC repo when no other tool was working, that’s the quality that as a fellow engineer I care about the most.

2026.08.16 19:21

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” We use buzzwords like orchestration, graphs, loops, runtimes, verification to be able to convey our thoughts but we don’t want to get hypnotized by the vocabulary. Shakespeare got it right. We need to ask ourselves if the system’s effects matches the promise behind the vocabulary. Ultimately, the intrinsic qualities of an object are more important than what it’s called. Building something that has reduced stress for someone working in a 10M+ LoC repo when no other tool was working, that’s the quality that as a fellow engineer I care about the most.