Armin Ronacher: I started 141 projects in a year, but only maintain 10-15
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-11-13
At AI Engineer Code Summit, Earendel CTO Armin Ronacher argued for "software ateliers" over "software factories": he started 141 projects in a year but regularly maintains only 10-15. His agents now run 40+ minutes while his Pi coding agent's core tools barely changed. Advice: push back on agents, don't confuse completed tasks with good software, keep shared standards. The real skill is shifting from being able to build to knowing what's worth building.
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