Clarity of thought is the only real way to be a 10x developer.

Really just think about anybody you admire in any job role. Their clarity of thought is through the roof. You don't find many top executives whose clarity of thought is messy.

Getting it to alive is the thrill, keeping it alive is walk through hell.

Some old loggers didn’t quit when chainsaws showed up in the 1920s. Axe or motor, you still had to read the wind and guess which way the tree would fall. Same for SWEs. New tools and same risk, with grief of laying down the craft you learned the hard way.

If I were to recommend one thing to any future founder - sweat the details. Details lead to clarity lead to action. Bad operators jump to action with messy thinking. Good operators jump to action only after clear principles and a strong understanding of context.

Hiring should be real simple these days. If you are looking for an SWE with 3-5 years of experience, did they individually ship and maintain products over this time. If so, likely good candidate. If not, trash bin.

The way somebody communicates is more obvious than their unique fingerprint. They change it with AI writing it and it changes how I receive it.

This might be the most information dense explanation of AI as it relates to mode collapse.

Craftsmanship is not the right question. AI models tend to go for shallow hills b/c it's risky and expensive to pick the peaks (b/c of RLHF). The question I see fit is if the "mostly right" average answer is often catastrophically wrong in a context.

To get people excited to join software engineering and tackle future problems, we need to pivot from learning language algos and semantics as the goal. I remember viscerally that was my whole schtick. Only years later after those product wins/losses did I understand it all.

Let’s not anthropormorphize matrix multiplication people. This isn’t a society, it’s a vector space.

Re: moltbot. Matrix multiplication + reward functions is some form of benign intelligence. But definitely not something to be in awe. Seems like the celebratory phase of all that work and next phase is us humans pursuing a new sharp peak. …Shit are we that different than AI?

You all curb stomped him and then he shows up with this demonstrating his true understanding, present and future, with regards to the topic at hand. Bravo on this piece Andrej.

No lines at Mall of America today. Everybody must be chatting with malbots.

Senior engineers learn to adore simplicity. Whether it's avoiding unnecessary GitHub libraries or their own local coding setup. They just have a better sense for what works for the long term whereas junior folks prioritize what works now. Can't fault them though.

View investing with the lens of downside risk.

You might not get it today. You might not accept it, but Bad Bunnys performance was a 'soft power' play to forward the aims of the Donroe Doctrine.

If even 1/10 of the Super Bowl watchers walked away with this, we would realize we are better together. Focusing on preventing external power influence from the eastern hemisphere by coagulating western influence up and down the poles could be our greatest asset going forward.

They said this about secretaries...

Amdahls law