Brian Balfour: belief

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…I feel like this also just a very common theme now across companies. I feel like if you haven't written about this, I think just sharing this in depth would be really useful to a lot of people. Because I think a lot of startups are trying to think about this. I think a lot of folks have really come to this realization through some of these hard times where a lot of pressure gets put on prioritization and budget cuts and stuff. I would go as far to say as I think this is where the world is headed. All of this AI tooling is going to give these super ICs, these captain level ICs even more leverage in solving problems and their creation abilities as part of that. And so I think in the future, what we're going to see ... and I'm not the first one to say this, there have been others like Scott Belsky and others that have written about this. Which is just, I think the future is actually companies that are ... they're much smaller teams where all of these AI tools are giving one person a wider set of creation abilities. And as a result, you don't need as many people to solve the same size problem as you want to. And that's great. There's less coordination, there's less all of the things that people end up hating their jobs over. Whether that's writing updates and reviews and all of that type of stuff. I think it's a very positive thing and as a result, we're going to see happier people, happier companies, and more creative output as part of it. And so I don't know. I think the future favors these super IC types over the manager types. I'm so curious if that's how it ends up playing out. It all makes sense that that's where things would head if AI gets powerful enough. But there's also these incentives that just drive companies to hire. It's like, oh, right, we could do more. Why don't we hire more engineers? Oh, we could build this team. We could go faster.…

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