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date: 2026-04-21 01:00
title: Boring Tiny Tools
link: https://vaughntan.org/boringtinytools
cited: Vaughn Tan
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> This essay is about Boring Tiny Tools - why they're the way forward for digital transformation. Generative AI coding tools now enable high-utility, highly customised, but narrowly scoped software … but only with a fundamentally different approach to product development that uses meaningmaking to identify problems solvable with off-the-shelf components.