An older post of mine about "company-as-code" was shared here recently. So I thought it might be nice with follow-up about how I'm approaching this practically in my small business.
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I wrote this post some time ago, and more recently built a thing to do roughly this for my small business: https://github.com/42futures/firm
Had it in practice for about 4 months now and happy so far. It works for me, at my small scale. Hoping to share a follow-up with lessons learned soon.
Thinking of Terraform, you have data blocks that can grab data from an external source. Still trying to grok what would be a convenient way of doing something like this - whether that gets generated to DSL, or if data pulled in dynamically as you build the org graph...
Having your plain-text workspace as a unified structural source where you pull in data from external systems would be potentially powerful.
To be clear, I'm trialing this out in my own small business. Whether it's ergonomic enough to add value and whether it's scalable, I don't know yet. So far, so good, though.
The project is structured as libraries such that you could build an editor separately, but it's not something that has taken priority for me (as the only user, so far).
With LLMs, I'm not so sure. Seems more like an individual activity to me. Are some people resistant to new tools, sure. But a good tool does tend to diffuse naturally. I think LLMs are diffusing naturally too, but maybe not as fast as the AI-boosters would like.
The mistake these managers are making is assuming it's a good tool for work that they're not qualified to assess.