Barrels and ammunition → barrels and tokens The classic @rabois startup wisdom is that at software companies you need two kinds of people: ▪️ barrels: rare, high-leverage individuals in a company who can take an idea from start to finish ▪️ ammunition: talented specialists (engineers, designers) who execute excellently but need direction and ownership to be effective In the AI age all the leverage belongs to the barrels. The tools are getting so good they can now effectively take any idea to reality for the right barrel. The ammunition is LLM tokens and parallel agents. I think this is best summary of how the software engineering market changes from now on (ht @cramforce).