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The opening quote is a phenomenal one, that captures the thrust of the argument really well: "“The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement....". A prediction about what will make a software engineer effective in the future.

Contains the great quote "We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume", which seems to be the consumer AI startup space right now. This is bound to change. How much will things actually cost in the future?

A good writeup on the state of AI investment and the thinking around the market opportunity thats leading to outsized investment and outside offers to key personnel. I'm skeptical that businesses actually know what skills will be important, and I think theres likelihood the senior, experienced talent wars will heat up even more.

I think this captures the “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” syndrome that permeates a lot of the software engineering community in 2025.

Generates a short video starting from a single image. Process involves storyboarding first via an AI image context editing model, then using a generative video model that can take two images as start and end frame for the generated video.