2nd December 2024
For most software engineers, being well rounded is more important than pure technical mastery. This was already true, of course — see @patio11's famous advice "Don't call yourself a programmer" — but even more so due to foundation models. In most situations, skills like being able to use AI to rapidly prototype in order to communicate with clients to iterate on specifications create far more business value than technical wizardry alone.
Recent articles
- Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code - 19th August 2026
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
- Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026