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
- OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
- Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican - 1st September 2026