Lui Yong Sheng

A row of products just slid past you, and you judged every one before you read a word. Everyone does. It takes about two seconds and nobody can switch it off.

You know a few other things too. The demo is never the product. What looked right in Figma ships slightly wrong. And most software feels like nobody was home when it was made, because the person who cared and the person who could were two different people.

I got tired of that split in 2013, so I stopped picking a side. Everything in that strip has one author. I drew it and I wrote it, front end to backend to smart contracts to native Swift.

A few things I’ll argue with anyone about:

• Taste is an engineering skill. If you can’t build it you’re guessing, and if you can’t see it you’re shipping the guess.
• Shipping is the only argument. kankan.camera is on the App Store. Cross-chain checkout is live on mainnet. Tatarot.ai got acquired. Opinions are cheap and links are not.
• Early beats loud. I shipped a visual LLM pipeline builder before the category had a name.
• Boring outlives clever. I watched Flash, Windows Phone and the monolith each get their funeral. What survives is the choice someone can still maintain in five years.

Now that you’ve read this, you’ll start seeing the handoff everywhere, in every app that feels slightly off. That part I can’t undo.

I post what I’m building on X as it happens, so follow along there. And when you’re making something that deserves one author, Telegram is open. I say no to most things and yes to the interesting ones.