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Zach Lloyd

Zach Lloyd

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Founder and CEO of Warp, where we are building a modern Rust-based terminal. Prev: Principal Eng at Google Docs, Interim CTO at TIME, Co-founder at SelfMade.

Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces

Apr 12, 202314 min read

New paradigm in horizontal productivity apps is going to be Ask & Adjust: AIs will iteratively generate drafts or edits, and humans will tweak them ·...

Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces

Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on?

Sep 20, 20229 min read

development environments will eventually move to the cloud, but the incentives aren’t as strong as they are in other domains; likely top-down adoption ·...

Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on?

The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures

May 4, 20224 min read

Thoughts on how to avoid the promo-culture trap · If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I...

The Google Incentive Mismatch: Problems with Promotion-Oriented Cultures

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

Jan 26, 20225 min read

Throughout my career, the biggest mistake I see engineers make is doing too much work on their own before looping in others. · Throughout my career, the...

The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

Hiring

Mar 1, 202133 min read

How to hire engineers at an early stage startup · How to hire engineers at an early stage startup One of the hardest and most important parts of starting...

Hiring

Code-first vs. Product-first

Apr 30, 20194 min read

Why I like working with user-focused engineers · There are two kinds of programmers, generally speaking. There are programmers who care more about code,...

Code-first vs. Product-first