software engineer

“The reason it's the right decision is that most engineers don't have side projects. Most engineers have been, have, you know, been working at a company, and it's all proprietary code, and there's very little they can show. That's, you know, eight out of 10 eng…”

“Even though engineers are better, At grading other engineers. There are two other facts. One, they don't tend to enjoy doing it. And two, it doesn't tend to be the greatest way to extract value out of a great engineer.”

“If you're trying to self-diagnose, am I being exploited as an engineer, as a technical person, is the whole point that the business people have a lot of meetings that you're not invited to, and all decisions about everything are made by the business people, an…”

“When the team you're coming into is extremely upfront with you about how it's going to be, and it turns out that way and it's not good, it's not necessarily you're being exploited. Like you made that choice. You chose that.”

“The LLMs are maybe going to push people to choose, because the actual writing of the code may become less important, and it's about, are you really, do you have taste and you want to solve product problems, or Are you an architect and you want to solve systems…”

“I think one of them that I can read verbatim is, I think the role of software engineer will transition to product engineer. Human taste is now more important than ever as CogenTools make everyone a Tenex engineer.”

“I think there's gonna be a generation of software engineers that are, like, good enough because it's so easy to retool there with all these cogent tools. Like, the barrier is so low. You're gonna be good enough engineers. There's gonna be tons of those. But to…”

“I think there will be demand for smart people who know how to wrangle these AI coding machines, and if we want to call those people software engineers, so be it. But I think the job is dramatically, dramatically different.”

“Things we've seen work particularly well for early stage engineering candidates is having shown some experience of building their own projects or doing something that's more akin to starting a startup. Maybe they've even been a startup founder in the past, or …”

“It really matters that the founder, ideally the technical founder, is going to be reaching out for those suite hires.”

“I think in some sense, you're right that like everyone is going to become a manager in the future, or at least that's my hot take. But in order to get there are steps along the way and you have to really build a lot of trust in the model and understand what it…”

“I do feel like the best or the people who will get the most out of coding agents in the future are going to be kind of like more manager, like where they're focusing on directing flows in certain ways. They're probably going to be a little bit more like design…”

“I think we're gonna start to see the title software engineer go away, and I think it's just gonna be maybe builder, maybe product manager, maybe we'll keep the title as kind of a vestigial thing, but the work that people do, it's not just gonna be coding, it's…”

“I happen to think that software engineers are one of like the worst customers to sell to, and they can change tools on a whim. Something new comes out over here, they'll adopt it. So I see it as like almost this market that's always incredibly competitive, but…”