What Thuan Pham thinks about curiosity

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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1 Apr 2026

Our readingAI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.

Their wordswe see the difference between the great engineer and an an average engineer is still two 3x in terms of their capability. They're more inquisitive. they're at the bleeding edge more, they're more innovative,

↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 20th of 24 in this recording