The old ones

New tech trends excite builders.

Super-secret ChatGPT prompt hacks?

Shiny new tech stack?

Delicious.

And bad for you.

There’s a reason that veteran builders - folks who have been building products for decades - tend not to pay attention to these trends.

No, it’s not because they’re old and set in their ways.

It’s because they’ve seen this all before.

New is not new for long. A new new comes along replacing the new. Sooner or later, you’ve learned eighteen different ways to solve the same problem, rather than solving eighteen different problems.

They realised that no one cares about your stack. People simply want their problems to be solved.

That’s it.

Forget new. Focus on things that matter.