AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.
Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.
@kevbob vivitar! I wonder my one of those went
@briansuda cat piñata is definitely an image
Just a reminder that just the growth in wealth of the US billionaire class since 2020 (start of the pandemic) is more than enough to fund UBI. There are other conversations to have about AI, but that's an important one.
@luis_in_brief @simon “enforcement model”. B corps had this same problem. Lot of good people out there operating in good faith, but certainly no way to know for sure.
@lzg we collected several to bring home to our axolotl during our recent Mexico trip
Code has always been the easy part
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may even be true) that stopping and pivoting the team to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking everything that came later at Etsy. After all, no one ever has to argue about what elegant PHP looks like.
So my two big take aways from tuning into the Super Bowl for a bit is I have no idea how either of these teams made it to Super Bowl, and also most teams don’t know how to use AI video models. Because these are the worst ads I’ve ever seen
@annika @lmorchard he writes a lot! And I don’t love all of it. But Elder Race was good. I also liked Doors of Eden.
@lmorchard Children of Memory really spoke to the moment for me
