software engineer
also referred to as: software engineers
3 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2025 by Bret Taylor · across every show →
Everything said about software engineer, oldest first
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Taylor: Treating software engineers as machine operators will make development more robust
“I have a strong suspicion that if we designed these systems with the role of a software engineer in mind being an operator of a machine rather than the author of the code, we could make the process Much more robust and much more productive.”
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Taylor: Software engineering supply is not close to being solved by AI
“At some point, we will be we will no longer be supply constrained in software, but we're not anywhere close to it right now, and you're taking something that has always been the scarce resource, which is software engineers, and you're making it not scarce, and…”
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Taylor: Raw coding speed is no longer a differentiated engineering skill
“You know, if you define your role as a software engineer is how quickly you type into your IDE, the next few years might leave you behind, you know, because that that is no longer a differentiated, you know, part of the software engineering experience or will …”