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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Existing AI models were already more than good enough for writing code and do more than can be utilized from them.

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  the existing ones were more than good enough, and I'm learning how much to trust those existing ones... and already they do more than I can utilize them (for writing code)

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Cyber insurance prices are likely to rise from their current levels.

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  I am happy to admit that the answers here are far from obvious, and that I am myself expecting prices to rise somewhat.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  The complaint that Y Combinator has jumped the shark is permanent rather than observational — it has been made since 2008, and it concedes that YC was once great.

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  people are always saying that YC has jumped the shark. You know, and like I remember when people started saying this, which is in about like 2008, right? YC is always this thing that was great, but now it's not what it was, right? Cuz they can't say it was always terrible. They have to admit it was once great.

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  Stigma changes what people admit to rather than what they do: they keep using the platform and simply get quieter about it.

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  People being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Naming the movement 'agile' was a mistake, because the word is indefensible: nobody will ever admit to not being agile, while nobody claims to be an extreme programmer without having done the work.

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  what I don't like about it I didn't like about it then and still don't like about it is it's not defensible. Nobody's going to say I'm not agile. Oh no, I prefer rigid development. Oh, I prefer inflexible development. No, everybody's going to say that they're agile, which extreme doesn't have that problem.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  I have to admit that I still primarily alternate between Codex and Claude Code as my daily drivers, for now

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  I have to admit that I still primarily alternate between Codex and Claude Code as my daily drivers, for now

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  Silicon Valley talking only to itself has produced a dismissal of ordinary human experience everywhere else.

  America

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  there’s also within that excitement, and within everybody talking just to each other, there’s a dismissal of the basic human experience across the United States and the Midwest, across the world.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  nbdev

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  Because I have invested thousands of hours into nbdev, it's difficult to admit there are better tools for the outcomes I want.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Wooden Bath Mat

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  Despite her McPersnickety ways, I had to admit that the wooden bath mat was magical. It dried within minutes and felt a lot less gross on my feet than a glorified carpet collecting everybody's foot germs.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Effective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.

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  This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.

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  So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.

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