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Some Things Just Take Time

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/

Some Things Just Take Time

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Mar 21 at 2:46pmWeb
Show threadvaylianMar 21
Speed is useful, when you have a good idea or a hypothesis you want to test. But if you are running in the wrong direction, speed is of very little value. With LLMs it might be even harder to stop and realize that you are creating the wrong thing, because you are not spending effort to create the wrong thing.
Show threadbinsquareMar 21
I can relate to this, when time and effort of coding is a limiting factor it forces people to be more thoughtful about what to create.
Show threadrkwtr1299Mar 21

And yet https://earendil.com/purpose/ is dabbling in AI and many posts by Ronacher are low key promoting AI.

He is contributing to the madness.

Purpose | EARENDIL

Earendil crafts software and open protocols, strengthens human agency in the age of AI, bridges division and ignorance, and cultivates lasting joy and understanding.

Earendil
Show threadSwizecMar 21

> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it with more things

You fill a jar with sand and there is no space for big rocks.

But if you fill the jar with big rocks, there is plenty of space for sand. Remove one of the rocks and the sand instantly fills that void.

Make sure you fit the rocks first.