Posts tagged with "career"
- The Value of Software Engineers
12/20/2025
Quoting Robert Greiner from Believe the Checkbook: AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
The key constraint is obvious once you say it out loud. The bottleneck isn’t code production, it is judgment.
Regarding Athropic’s language used in acquiring Bun:
That’s investor-speak for: we’re paying for how these people think, what they choose not to build, which tradeoffs they make under pressure. They didn’t buy a pile of code. They bought a track record of correct calls in a complex, fast-moving domain.