Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…king sure that I can swap the tasks out. I can really adapt, use the new technology." Get really good at AI coding, for example. And then you want to add skills. "I can also get really good at design. I can also get really good at product management because I've got this new tool." So, you want to pick up more and more scope as you do that. And then 10 years from now, is your job title coder or coder/designer/product manager? Or is it just, "I build products"? Or is it just, "I tell the AI how to build products"? It's like whatever that job is called, who even knows what it's going to be, but it's going to be incredibly important because the people doing that job are going to be orchestrating the AI. And so that's the track that the best people are going to be on, and I think that's the thing to lean hard into. I think people aren't fully grasping just, specifically, software engineering and how much that is changing. It's pretty clear we're going to be in a world soon where engineers are not actually writing code, which I think, a year ago, we would not have thought. And now it's just, clearly, this is where it's heading. It's like there's going to be this artisanal experience of sitting there writing code, which is so crazy how much that job is going to change. Yeah. So again, here, I go back. And again, pardon maybe the history lesson, but I go back coding. So, the first... Do you know the original definition of the term calculator? Do you know what that referred to?…

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