What François Chollet thinks about developer tools

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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1. 25 Sept 2026, 04:19 UTC

   Our readingThe difficulty of software engineering is probably essentially constant across abstraction levels, because human cognition adapts to new tools.

   Their wordsI think the "difficulty" of software engineering is essentially constant no matter what abstraction level you move to, because human cognition adapts to new tools until it can fully utilize itself.

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