software engineering

“Turns out through my experience, the best research scientists, also very good engineers, like very good engineers. And we've noticed like through DeepMind and OpenAI is just like the companies that made the most progress over like last six years or five years …”

“A lot of research, at least in computer science, the kind of stuff that I've worked on, a lot of research is basically, is mostly prototyping. It's like, can we showcase an idea, but it's not really software engineering of like, we'll build a thing that can be…”

“I think what AI will do is it will compress the middle because in the middle is really just a lot of, like, abstractions and middleware and other things that are today necessary and today, you know, require a lot of human labor to implement.”

“As machines get better at finding the answers, like, we're going to have to get better at finding the questions. And, you know, like these systems don't have a, you know, their own sort of notion of what questions are interesting. And given a large question, h…”

“I think tomorrow you're going to, as a designer, type effectively the same specification as a product manager and you have, you know, an AI to render the code for the wireframes and then apply, you know, grounding out of your design system to make it look like…”

“It's very industry by industry, right? Like for you and in investing, right? It's like the most power law thing imaginable. And where it's just like the top handful of companies each decade are the ones that matter such a disproportionate amount. And it's the …”

“I think software engineering is a hard bringer of what will happen in other disciplines, because the tools are most advanced in software engineering.”

“I think you actually have the same problem in programming, where I think in the short term programming is verifiable, where you can look at unit tests, but once you get into real software engineering, like the unit, there is no unit test. It's like I deployed …”

“Making someone program 20% faster doesn't make you build a product 20% faster. And so starting to think about, like, what is the broader infrastructure you need so these companies can develop software and product faster?”

“It's just like you can move in much larger macro actions. It's not just like, here's a line of code, here's a new function. It's like, here's a new functionality. And delegate it to agent one. Here's a new functionality that's not going to interfere with the o…”

“So, In that domain, I think it's happening now-ish. And I think we'll see the same thing too for AI research. That's a slower outer loop because now the experiment isn't just checking some unit tests passing, but it's checking what was the scaling property? Di…”

“So rolling forward that software engineering self-improvement, I think you're going to have a system that can write complete repositories, identify bugs, refactor code, But it doesn't suddenly understand biology. Right? It's just like there's a domain gap ther…”

“Many people now that I know are hiring people more in their thirties, forties, fifties, because they're used to managing teams. And I think that transfers directly over to managing agents in terms of understanding the complexity of what to set up and the QA an…”