engineer

“If you're one of those engineers, man, you better start like, you know, planning another career. Okay. Because this stuff is in the future and it's honestly, it takes some effort to actually make coding assistants work today, right? You have to, you know, just…”

“You have small collectives of, you know engineers who have created, who are now creating the top models on open source leaderboards, and I have tried out all sorts of different sort of, you know, data recipes, creating synthetic data”

“Like, I think we can, you know, 10 x the amount of developers, and still, you know, have a lot of people making a lot of money, you know, building amazing software, and also being, while at the same time being more productive. Like, I never understood this, li…”

“It's really hard to actually build interesting tools as an academic. You can't really hire great engineers. Everything is kind of on a paper to paper timeline.”

“A lot of times it's kind of easy to fall victim to, oh, I'm building, like I'm the profile who I'm building for, so I know what's best. And that obviously works a lot of the time, but sometimes there are some like core design tenants that you just might not th…”

“The productivity impacts of people being able to do more means we actually want more people, right? It's like we are so limited by the ability to produce software, so limited by the ability of our team to actually clean up tech debt and go and refactor things,…”

“65, 70% of engineers use them on the day to day.”

“We will probably have more than one engineer make million dollars cash next year based on this model. And that is just with story point compensation. It's very likely that we will have more than a handful of folks make more than a million dollars next year.”

“Every engineer is just gonna own more code. Period. And be parachuted in and be expected to ramp up and be productive and also fix bugs. And if you're on, you know, pager duty or whatever to just because I mean, everyone's going to try to be more efficient and…”

“I always laugh when, you know, people say, you don't need to be an engineer. Don't do computer science. I actually think like that is like still one of the most protected job categories because things are only getting more technical. Things are only going to g…”

“Definitely in the vibe coding era, there are a crop of engineers that they don't think about hardware at all, and we don't have that luxury.”

“And I think in that you start to see more of a bimodal distribution of engineers, right? You start to see like, wow, there's this subset of people that they really get it. Like they're all in and they've clearly invested the hours needed to learn these tools a…”

“Common numbers that I hear are anywhere from a thousand an engineer up to 5000 an engineer. I have not heard anywhere in the realm of, like, 50,000 an engineer for a frame of reference.”