software engineer
also referred to as: software engineers
5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2023 by Duncan Campbell · across every show →
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Jun 15, 2023 positive
Campbell: ChatGPT's 'permaflow' eliminates human context-switching penalties
“Every time you go back to you know, chat.openai.com and go into this chat, It has a perfect state of where it was previously, right? So I said four or five hours of continuous work, but in reality, it was a bunch of 45 minute segments. And I didn't have to lik…”
Jun 15, 2023 positive
Campbell: AI will not replace software engineers but make individuals team-scale
“I don't see this replacing software engineers. Just as it empowered me, like I very much see a great software engineer just using this to save a ton of time, right? Telling it exactly what to do with a level of specificity about programming that I could never …”
Jun 15, 2023 neutral
Madaeni: AI will shift software engineering toward prompting, code review, and QA
“At the end of the day, we're flying a plane that's, we're souping up the autopilot system, but I think we still need pilots. And, you know, a pilot with an autopilot system is a different kind of a pilot. So it's mostly about, I wouldn't say essay writing, but…”
Jun 15, 2023 neutral
Madaeni: Engineers with both backend software and optimization expertise are extremely rare
“Software engineers do a lot of the back-end data engineering, post-processing of results, putting it in the architecture. That's why you go and hire optimization engineers, people with OR backgrounds and math models that can write Optimization level software. …”