Alex Embiricos
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1,288 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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And there were humans who would punch out punch cards and put them into the machine and do a bunch of tabulated math.
I'm probably butchering this.
But basically, there was an intensely manual part of work.
And even the first spreadsheet software was kind of loosely based off this idea that you would have an office full of desks arranged in a grid and people doing tabulations and then passing their sheets to the next person.
And so all these things, like those specific tasks have become automated, but every time that's happened, there's been an explosion in demand for the output.
And so you need many more people actually to do that kind of work, even if the specific task has changed.
Yeah, and sometimes we change what terms mean, right?
The term computer now refers to something else, but now we have the term software engineer.
And so I definitely think we'll have many more builders.
And something interesting that I'm observing now is there's this compression of the talent stack.
You still need software engineers today.
You still need designers.
I'm a PM.
Do you need PMs?
You can have some fun jokes about that.
I don't think you need them.
But maybe when you say engineer, you might be thinking of someone who's much more full stack.
than has been true before.
Like even if you go back a few years, you had many more places where there was like the backend engineer and the frontend engineer.
Whereas like now, at least if I think about the Codex team, like that's much less the case and things are much more full stack, right?
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