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Their wordsCoding agents are not perfect, but they have raised the skill floor of software engineering dramatically.
Their wordsBuild vs buy in the future will simply be a context arbitrage between startups and their customers.
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Startups were never about writing better code; they are about founders and the talent they attract.
Their wordsStartups have always been about the founders and the talent they could attract, they were never about writing better code.
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The best engineer of the future will be the one who puts the most context into the coding harness.
Their wordsThe cracked engineer of the future will be the one that can imbue the most context into the coding harness that their employer provides. And they might not even be an engineer at all.
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