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When the only input your company accepts is through paying customers, you limit your ceiling to a small pool of ideas. Open communities create a different kind of exchange, one that compounds in ways money can't measure.
A bet that obsession matters more than speed. That personality matters more than feature parity. That going deep matters more than going wide.
Tuist started at the toolchain layer and is working its way down to compute and caching. This is the whole house, from roof to foundation, and why going deep into each layer is how you earn trust that money cannot buy.
Developers who build companies tend to fall in love with their creations. That love is a strength, but it can also become a blind spot when others see your work as an asset to acquire rather than a craft to respect.
Why the future of CI isn't about dedicated compute but about colocated caching, and how build systems, coding agents, and shifting economics are making that future real.
Building a long-term company in dev tooling means accepting that some things can't be rushed. Ideas have their own pace, trust takes time, and not every shortcut is worth taking.
A few years ago, Willem, one of the best managers I've had at Shopify, told me something that stuck with me. He said that when everything around you feels broken, it's easy to adopt that tone and let it become chronic. I've been thinking about that lately.