engineer

also referred to as: engineers

7 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2023 by Sahil Lavingia · across every show →

Everything said about engineer, oldest first

Jan 13, 2023 negative
Opinion
Lavingia: Building a startup paying $250k for engineers is almost impossible
“Engineers, by the way, are very expensive. So if you can't learn a code, let's just say you're going to spend 250 grand a year on one person, right? So good luck building a successful company with that. That's just almost impossible.”
Sahil Lavingia Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 34:48 Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
Jan 13, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Lavingia: Engineers and designers are 2-3x cheaper than 6 months ago
“Like engineers are cheaper. They're easier to hire. Designers are cheaper, easier to hire. And that's all I need. I don't actually don't need anything else. Those are the two most valuable, you know, resources on the planet. And now they're, you know, they're …”
Sahil Lavingia Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 3:49 Sahil Lavingia Gets Radically Honest
Dec 28, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
João Moura: Cursor Will Not Replace Software Engineers Anytime Soon
“Again, silly me thinking that cursor is gonna replace engineer so soon. It's gonna take quite a while.”
João Moura Dec 28, 2024 ▶ 1:26:23 How To Create Ai Agents From Scratch (CrewAI, Zapier, Cursor)
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Engineers are safe from AI because API integrations remain deeply fragile
“It becomes terrifying, and this is why even in the age of LLMs, good engineers will still get paid, because stuff like this exists.”
Ross Mike Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 10:35 Model Context Protocol (MCP), clearly explained (why it matters)
Jul 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Woodward: Engineers Emerge as Key Users for Google's Stitch UI Tool
“We originally thought like, okay, who might like this? Maybe it's designers. Maybe it's PMs. Turns out engineers really like this tool because they can describe maybe a screen if it's like someone trying to start a company and they get like good base level of …”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 28:25 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
Feb 2, 2026
Insight
Rose: Paring Down Scope Will Be the Core Skill for Future Engineers
“So I think that the future engineer and the future developer and the future product builder here, it's not going to be what you build as much as what you do. If that kind of makes sense, because it's going to be so easy to build anything and everything to pair…”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 2:32 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 positive
Insight
Kevin Rose: Vibe Coding Scalability Flaws Are Solved Easily Post-Traction
“The hardest thing to do is to find something that somebody actually wants to use, right? Like that's the hard problem. If I have something that I vibe coded and I launch it, and if it crashes under the weight of 50,000 people beating my door down because it's …”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 40:13 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
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