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Accenture and Deloitte are tier 3 or tier 2 consultants. McKinsey, Bain and BCG are tier one. Generally hired for different things (strategy consulting vs implementation)

> Accenture

Not really the same thing as McKinsey, Bain, BCG.

Tech has never been as respected as finance, law, or medicine.

It didn't really merit the respect.

Traditional licensed engineering is harder, has higher risk, and should have been more respected. Software engineering just had unlimited supply since copying software is free so the unit economics we easy to achieve, copying a bridge has a bill of materials and construction cost and time.

Physical utility that manifest in the real world is undervalued, doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, should be more respected, and would be, in a sticks and stones and wetware human reality, early 20th century economy.

Finance and Tech are really over valued due to runaway capitalism, in a virtual and synthetic reality, of capital and debt and virtual webspace post 1980's.

is there a laymen training guide on markdown?

How do I teach someone who never opened anything besides excel, word, and powerpoint about markdown? to them the document file is just a document and it opens in word that's mostly what they know for this audience.

Check out the branch, run the code locally, read it, ask claude code or codex or whatever harness to explain things you don't understand. Ask it to diagram the code boundaries and modules and model the system so you can visually understand it.

use AI to write smoke tests without access to the code i.e. first describe something a correct implementation should do with only the knowledge of the interface not the implementation, and run the tests to see if it behaves the way you think it should.

Which apps do you use for this? Keynote or something else?

> I think you have to compromise on hardware or software and Apple makes a choice.

Why do you think that? With unlimited talent and money on either side it seems possible to do both really well without it hurting profit margin.

I mean the question is 'faster at what'

You can vibe code something faster, but you have to know what your are doing to avoid making a big ball of mud. Anything non-trivial needs architecture that is 'better-than-current-frontier-model' capable.

Now tbh it's not clear at this point if the limit is the model capability or our ability to provide the right context to generate a good architecture, but for now it's one thing that you still need really smart engineers for when working on really hard problems.

Taste, figuring out what to actually build, product discovery, figuring out what not to build, listening to your customers, finding product market fit, product strategy.

Product Design in the pure 'this is how it works elegantly with nothing else to remove' way and not the simple UI meaning of the word.

Oh that's so funny I literally had Codex compile a working build to try it the other day.

Funding child education up to 18 seems like a great and noble cause. How does it work beyond that though, with university?

Could you fund a scholarship or a specific department or something with the universities instead of sponsoring an individual person?

I was always kind of captivated by Lagrangian mechanics as a more elegant way to model stuff after doing classical mechanics.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics