software engineer

also referred to as: software engineers

4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2026 by Gaurav Jain · across every show →

Everything said about software engineer, oldest first

Jul 17, 2026 bullish
Opinion
One AI-assisted software engineer can now do the work of 20
“Now one engineer can do the job of 1015, 20 engineers, right? It's only getting more, it's only getting better. That's great. Right? That's great. That's great. Maybe one senior engineer who's not cheap here can suddenly do the job that, like, you might have n…”
Gaurav Jain Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 47:18 We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
Jul 17, 2026 neutral
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Jain: Historically 70% of VC capital went directly to hiring engineers
“Historically, 70 cents of every dollar we would give as VCs to founders would go towards hiring engineers, right?”
Gaurav Jain Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 47:07 We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
Jul 31, 2026 bullish
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Krishnan: Engineers at many companies have not written code in six months
“There are so many companies now where software engineers have not had to write a single line of code in say more than six months, which is I mean, quite unprecedented, right?”
Vijay Krishnan Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 30:27 The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
Jul 31, 2026 bearish
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Krishnan: Over half of global software engineers have narrow task scopes
“A big chunk of maybe more over half the you know software engineers in the world operate at a relatively narrow task scope.”
Vijay Krishnan Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 35:36 The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
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