Allen Pike
allenpike.com
Actively hiring
LLM & Generative AI
As featured in
Follow
Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Financials
Overview
Allen Pike Articles About Follow About Allen I'm a founder who loves building great software. At my latest startup, Forestwalk, we're making Powerplant, a multiplayer and transparency-first software factory.
News
Weighing the Business Case for Quality
Most of us want to do great work. Building things of exceptional quality - work that's beautiful, lovable, fast - is one of life's great joys. However, the story goes, capitalism doesn't value quality. Businesses don't fund software that is lovable. Thus,
Read more
Report
The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform
This week's discussion of the ChatGPT app and its move to Electron merits a link to my evergreen article The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform: At the highest level, cross-platform UI technologies prioritize coordinated featurefulness over polished sim
Read more
Report
discussion of the ChatGPT app
This week's discussion of the ChatGPT app and its move to Electron merits a link to my evergreen article The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform :
Read more
Report
How To (Not) Spend $10k/wk on Coding Agents
Word on the street is that the cost of building software is going to zero. Zero? Sounds like a good deal! Over the last year, my co-founder and I have iteratively automated our coding loops. Each time better tools revealed a bottleneck, we'd address it. A
Read more
Report
what she's been learning about tests
Forestwalk's CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she's been learning about tests , after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents:
Read more
Report