software engineering

“What we're really trying to get back to is simplicity, right? Instead of adding more teacups on top of this thing, wipe all the teacups away and find the foundational principles that we need in order to embrace this new machine, right? Gain power through simpl…”

“Most people, when they talk about, okay, when we put the solution, it shouldn't break as soon as we have 100,000 users hitting the site, right? It's a, it's ingrained in everybody's mind that you need performance, scalable code. What we need to do is add to th…”

“Most of this is actually a software problem. People like see a robot do thing, but it's actually like all of the machines are extremely dumb computers basically, and it's a coordination problem and it's an autonomy problem. And the one thing that we are still …”

“And I think we're at a moment where it's the next step. Instead of typing syntax, you're actually typing thoughts. Which is what we ultimately want.”

“If I'm writing a program, I'll like, whatever, I'll use a cloud database, I'll use storage, I'll use networking, you know, whatever it is, but like correctness and logic for the program is under the programmer's control. Maybe I'll use a third party library. B…”