software engineering

“So the software engineering part of learning to be a developer, that's something we can add later, focusing on core programming for now.”

“Getting good basics in linear algebra and in basic statistics, that's, especially when Doing experiments, it's easy to make like elementary statistics mistakes and linear algebra is just kind of most of what you need to know to like basic optimization as well …”

“Normally, the way that you do it is, well, your goal is to have everything be very observable. And so, yeah, you want to put metrics on everything, and like, you know, if something's not understandable, add more logging, like, you know, that that's how you des…”

“Like I could easily see the demand goes up 10 X or a hundred X, who knows, but I just think the AI is getting so good that you just won't have humans fulfilling that demand in anything but the most niche of niche cases.”

“I think we have a clear line of sight between where we are today and like improvements over the next three, six and 12 months. They're going to have quite stark consequences for software engineering, I think.”

“We think that one thing that will be irreplaceable is taste. So just defining what do you actually want to build? People usually think about this when they're thinking about the visual aspects of software. I think it's also, there's a taste component to the no…”

“We think that over the next five to 10 years, it will be possible to invent a new way to build software that's higher level and more productive. That's just as still down to defining how you want the software to work and how you want the software to look.”

“What I think will happen is all of us are going to be creating software, but there is going to be a job called a software engineer. It's going to be different, but I look at it, right? You are really taking a software engineer and saying you're now a software …”

“One surprising thing is, we're used to thinking of code as this really valuable artifact because it's so hard to create, but because the cost of software engineering is going down, code is much less of a valuable artifact as it used to.”

“With software engineering becoming much faster, the other interesting dynamic I'm seeing is that the product management work, getting user feedback, deciding what features to build, that is increasingly the bottleneck.”

“I think today software is going through the same transition from something that only experts do to something that anyone can do.”

“Our key insight was that to automate all of software engineering, you will have to build a platform that replicates what best engineering team do, like code reviews, automated testing, debugging, deployment, security, hosting.”

“If you can solve for verification, which is essentially, you know, you can solve the testing part you can actually automate all the software engineering. That was sort of our key insight that like, you know, verification is the loop, which sort of keeps agent …”