Bajan 🇧🇧, West Indian. Arsenal, McLaren & Lakers fan. Races anything with 4 wheels. Senior Software Engineering Manager @GoDaddy. 90% 🌶 views. He/Him
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Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
I think my favourite thing this week has been MAGA Americans learning about the big wide world outside. Whether that is the history of French revolution or worldwide literacy and educations rates. I love this for them.
Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
Agreed that a large volume of code before AI was slop. But I don't think that's the main point.
The main problem is that before AI, slop was being generated at human scale and it could be contained/controlled through management.
Now, AI causes several problems:
1- An AI coding agent can generate more slop in a day than a human would in their entire lifetime
2- A lot of people are entering software development jobs who have near-zero knowledge of code, and they are shipping AI-generated code to production. So now we have more people generating slop at the scale of AI
3- There is immense pressure on software companies to ship more code to avoid falling behind, so they don't have time to develop the mechanisms to control the quality of AI-generated code (including with the help of AI code review tools)
Like any tool AI is only as good as the person using it. It can multiple the skills of folks and also multiple their incompetence
Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
As an Amazon VP, I oversaw the promotions of 270+ engineers. Some were promoted from mid-level to senior, others from senior to staff or principal. Here’s how I think about promoting L5, L6, and L7 engineers.
Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom. As the competitive advantage of one LLM over another shrinks - particularly as open source models expand - the value proposition will turn to the neuro/symbolic harnesses that use those models, structures that encompass agents, agent orchestration, tooling, and component plugins. Even those from frontier AI organizations will fall to open source frameworks. The last thing standing will be those who command the data centers on which these things run, and even then, that will become a commodity, with the number of players shrinking to just a few survivors. They too will find pressure: as computational power rises, more and more such systems will be run locally.
Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
Every time I see someone saying “the hardest part of software engineering was writing the code itself”, I check their LinkedIn to find they only did junior level software engineering before they became a “founder”.
Think of software engineering as a pipeline. Historically, the hardest part was writing the code itself. Not the case anymore - honest question: how much of your code do you actually have to type at this point? For us it's probably <10%.
As agents get more capable, the bottleneck becomes less about writing code and more about two things: 1) making it easier for humans to understand, plan, and ask questions. 2) making it easier for agents to ingest all the real-world context surrounding your task.
Hence, DeepWiki & DeepWiki MCP. There's a "nihilist" view that as AI gets better, interfaces won't matter anymore. I think the opposite is true - AI will soon be so good that the way you interact & knowledge-transfer will be the only thing that matters.
Thanks @karpathy for the shoutout!
Codgi 🇧🇧 retweeted
What happens often is some idiot L5 will write a 1-pager saying hey we should fix this. A VP will read it and go yes good idea, you can have it. The L5 says no you don’t understand, I have a full plate. VP says don’t worry, your workload has been reduced to 95%.
I am that L5.
