engineer

also referred to as: engineers

8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Mar 22, 2023 by Troy Carter · across every show →

Everything said about engineer, oldest first

Mar 22, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Carter: Managing software engineers is identical to managing recording artists
“Dude, me, like working with engineers now, you know, with our new startup, I'm like, You know what? They are so close, it's as close as you can get to managing the artists by the way.”
Troy Carter Mar 22, 2023 ▶ 10:21 Ep 50: Troy Carter on Discovering Lady Gaga, Future of Music, and Speaking Out on School Choice · Joe Lonsdale
May 11, 2023 neutral
Insight
Balaji: Building basic Bitcoin exchange infrastructure is trivial in 2023
“It's trivial to set up a buy, sell, send, receive Bitcoin thing in 20, 23. You can do that. Like I shouldn't say one engineer, but a few engineers.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 11, 2023 ▶ 29:26 Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 18, 2023
Insight
McGrew: Great engineers struggle with uncertainty on long unproven projects
“This is one of those things about the really great engineers, is that a really great engineer wants certainty, right? They don't want to, you know, they've been doing something for three years, they, all they can see are all the problems that are in it”
Bob McGrew Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 5:29 Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
Dec 6, 2024 negative
Opinion
Sirota: Traditional IT outsourcers profit from black-box margins and engineer disempowerment
“The problem is their incentive is to charge a company as most as possible and pay the people as least as possible. And that's their black box margin. And so they literally sell engineers on a rate card. So there's no agency of the engineer to decide what they …”
Dylan Sirota Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 18:31 AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale
Dec 6, 2024 bullish
Insight
Sirota: Tech companies increasingly use contract-to-hire models for global talent
“That's the big trend right now. It's basically this try before you buy for talent, go into a market, prove that it's good, very low risk. When you think about contracting, our customers tend to see that they never want these engineers to leave them. They'll co…”
Dylan Sirota Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 20:47 AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale
Dec 18, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Kupor: Tech Force aims to recruit at least 1,000 engineers into government
“TechForce is basically, ah, a ambitious project to recruit at least a thousand engineers into government.”
Scott Kupor Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 3:47 America’s New AI Strategy: "We're Building a Tech Force" · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Scott Wu: Cognition engineers no longer type code
“For us at Cognition, for example, our engineers don't type code anymore.”
Scott Wu Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 14:43 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 30, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2031
Levie: Jevons paradox will create massive engineering demand across all industries
“And this is like classic Jevons paradox, which is we lowered the cost of engineering, which means that everybody wants to do more of it, and now finally people can. And so you're gonna see this huge surplus in, in demand For engineers across the economy in ind…”
Aaron Levie Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 31:44 Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
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