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How many bananas is that?

"that the big wins come from specialists learning to code "

I used to work at startup that did video encoding. We had tons of computer vision scientists that refused to learn decent C++ coding practices. Their stuff never worked right and they didn't really contribute much. We also had a few scientists who were decent coders and pretty much all progress came from them.

I see the same with some data scientists. They want to do pure data science and refuse to do the coding to actually get their data. So they have to be spoon fed all the time and their progress is super slow.

That’s pretty expensive though.

It makes me admire people like Linus Thorvalds. His job is mostly to read code and stay on top of the contributions of many people. I don’t think I could do that.

Totally. Skip the PR and show it to a higher up manager.

I have tried an M4 Macbook a while ago but my M1 Max Macbook still feels plenty fast. Hope to keep that for a long time.

"my job is to put myself out of a job by teaching everyone to be an architect"

I used to do that but it's a dangerous game. If you don't make sure to still be very visible to management further up, you end up with a stalled career or being laid off.

Totally agree. AI amplifies what's there already

"don't even bother to check it."

I have to admit it gets really exhausting to review the AI output. It comes in so fast and more and more it's quite good. So it's very tempting to get more relaxed about reviews. I guess in a sense manual coding gave you some mental downtime while writing code. With AI you don't get that anymore. It's always full speed.

"The Chinese labs are not providing their open-weight models for free because they think it is good for humanity. "

Neither do Anthropic and OpenAI.

Young software devs don’t listen to their elders. They know better.

Purify was great until Rational bought it and jacked up the price 10x.

Didn't they also make sure Lotus 123 didn't run as well as it could have?

"New Mexico decided to go it alone and gets $25 billion."

I highly doubt that New Mexico will get 25. Although it would be nice since I live in New Mexico.

"Real" engineers aren't responsible for their product being used in nefarious ways as long as the product was built according to the rules.

I assume it's the typical "accepting responsibility" of execs and politicians where nothing happens. Best case they throw some underling under the bus or have their institution pay a fine. But they themselves have no consequences