The Wisdom Wall
8 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“if anything, I think the theory of computer science is going to be even more valuable, you know, understanding the, the layers of abstraction and knowing, you know, the basic model of how a computer works and how to break down problems logically and how to, how to reason with these, Um, with these systems, it's gonna…”
“and then I think there are a lot of these kind of like larger and more complex tasks, you know, working on a big code base or figuring out things with your existing product or, you know, building, as you're saying, like a lot of this really kind of these bigger, uh, projects where, um, you know, you still want to be an…”
“code is one of the first ones because it's, it's, it's so nicely automatable. There's a clean feedback loop and, and all of these things that you can really train models to get really good at code.”
“Um, and so I think one of the big things, honestly, that, that, uh, that we're solving as a space is, is actually not just the capability itself, but, but just solving for, for a lot of these practical constraints and getting the technology to the point where it works for everyone and not just, you know, the subset of…”
“Similarly, I think, you know, being able to use image or being able to interact with these other data sources is, is what really gives AI is that same capability.”
“Um, the thing is you only spend about 10% of your time doing that, you know, as a software engineer in practice, you probably spend about 90% of your time, you know, dealing with your Kubernetes and fixing your unit tests and upgrading your, your thing to the new version and all of this other stuff, you know, fixing…”
“in the longterm, I think these things naturally do kind of converge to a point. And there are a few particular pieces I would say that, that really kind of caused that. And one of the big ones that I'll just point out is, you know, there really is a lot of, um, I guess in most spaces, you know, we would call this…”
“stagnation is actually the default, you know, it's, it's by default, it's not the case that we're going to have this, you know, the next thing.”