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The requirements are in the plain english doc

This is because its difficult to decouple the code from the requirements. And the full requirements are never contained within a doc. So you need an engineer to look at the code to see how its done. This is going to change.

Someone non-technical can do the requirements gathering.

The price on this will plummet over the next few years, the economic benefits are too large

Sometimes I am jealous of these people. They arent doing the corporate grind, and they arent even really doing the startup grind. They are shilling stuff on the internet and avoiding spending their lives working. I know a few, they live great, though frugal lives. I go to my job at prestigious big Co and often wonder who the smart one is, me or them

Stock based compensation is a huge drag on their expenses, to the degree that it has hurt their future. "Lyft had some of the best and smartest engineers", whats the bench mark for this? Good looking syntax in a clean code base isnt a top engineer. Delivering business value through technology is

Lyft was paying engineers 300-450k a year, sometimes with just 2-4 years of experience. This was true even pre 2020. The interviews were just leetcode hards, with an instant reject on not getting the problem right. I feel like a parrot repeating the same thing, but none of these companies hired the talent they thought they were hiring.

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For reference I work at a company that requires leetcode medium/hard perfection and am appalled at the money we pay for the engineers relative to the value they bring

One more point: Startups are confused about the role engineers play. A completely divorced product management and engineering workforce will kill new ideas. Engineers actually building the product have insights into what else can be built that product does not. By hiring engineers with zero product sense and treating them like robots, you get no innovation. This doesnt matter at a behemoth like amazon or google, but it does at a smaller company. Clean syntax != good engineer

I think the fact that there are no other systems publicly available that are comparable to GPT-4 (and I dont think Bard is as good), points to innovation they havent released

I heard Ilya wasnt behind the big innnovations at OpenAI. It was lesser known scientists

What a glorious downfall of arrogance and smug outdated systems

Its so you can try to build a business with > 1B valuation.

Natural language :)

CDK/Pulumi are going to be used by LLMs to spin up website infra exactly to spec. Devs will fill in the business logic interfaces. Going to be wild

If you want to be a software engineer, and you arent coding, then yeah its a bad job. Dont let other people convince you otherwise.