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It is a really good skill
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When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.
Yeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all…
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Competition drives skill, and sparing young people the struggle only defers it.
it seems like struggle is a part of life, either you do it earlier or you do it later. And it’s true, that’s such a good point that competition does seem to be a really powerful driver of skill development
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Making management the only path to career progression is a mistake that costs a company the senior engineers it needs.
great engineers really shouldn’t need to manage large teams to get promoted, and companies lose out on a critical skillset when they push all of their good engineers into management.
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Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.
At some point you have to take off the training wheels, because I think what you're really spotting is the difference between reading and writing code. I can read a lot of languages very well. I can see what's…