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What Addy Osmani thinks about AI and jobs

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Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google, most of it on Chrome and Chrome DevTools, rising from software engineer to director of engineering, and who created TodoMVC and helped push Core Web Vitals.

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  1. Our readingWhatever humans are still better at than models is alpha that decays with every model release, so the skill worth naming today will not be the one worth naming next year.

    Their wordswhat what is the current thing that models are not very good at doing? Alpha is going to decay in some way with every model release or every series of model releases. So, it's going to change over time.

    ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 16th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingWhat engineers will stay valuable for is being answerable for a system — the named person who decides what ships, what is blocked and what is deferred, whoever or whatever wrote the code.

    Their wordsBut they're the person that's on the hook for understanding, for gating, for making sure that someone is deciding what ships, what's blocked, what do we defer. And so, I think that that is something that engineers are going to continue to be valuable for.

    ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting