software engineering

“No one is trying to make with these, you know, with these ten billion dollar data centers, they're not trying to make chat models, right? They're not trying to make models that people chat with, just to be clear, right? They're trying to solve things like soft…”

“The challenge with it is it requires a new way of thinking for the people building the systems. Even if more and more is coded by cursor and other parts, you still need the humans that are working on this to adopt new ways of thinking and how they build system…”

“Basically the new form of engineering work out there is to come up with incredibly precise prompts that are super tuned for his use case. And then kick off all these agents in the background that, that are going off and doing work. And then he goes and reviews…”

“Still overseeing that AI, making most of the final decisions, but I think probably in two to three years, we're going to be at the place where AI is going to be making most of these decisions, and humans will be delegating, let's say, however, maybe decision f…”

“I self-identify as a software engineer, and even over the past four months, that job has changed dramatically. The skills that made me what I am are less valuable now than they were, you know four years ago.”

“You used to have to spend like two weeks on like a library, you know, change that you wanted to make in your code base. And that's now a 10 minute activity. And, but are we spending any less time building software? No, it's because we're just now doing the thi…”

“Citadel, that put out the fact that, like, people are talking about how software engineering is gonna be wiped out by this stuff, and meanwhile, the jobs on Indeed are going up.”