Blake Scholl

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

It turns out that was wildly optimistic.

The confusion list grew without bound because I was always finding things that I wish I understood completely that I just didn't understand yet.

But what it created in myself is a mental awareness of that difference between I really get this

And I'm kind of waving my hands.

And so that self-awareness, I think, really matters.

Because when there's a thing that you don't know yet that you need to know, you can stay on it and do whatever it takes cognitively until you have that internal sense of clarity, of not being confused.

Let's see, there's a lot of uncertainty about what jobs will look like as AI develops.

Do you have advice to early career technical people about what skills to learn?

I think all this AI doomerism is like deeply wrong and confused.

So my biggest piece of advice is don't worry about it.

Just go do useful things.

And as an example, the notion that software engineering is dead, I just don't buy it.

At Boom, we need far more software engineers in a post-AI world than we need in a pre-AI world.

Why?

Because the cost of software development has dropped.

Anybody, including hardware engineers, can now become a coder.

And we need software engineers to make sure the architectures are right and make sense and are coherent.

So our need for software engineers has actually gone up as the cost of software engineering has gone down.

So the thing that, again, I think let's go back and think about what really matters from first principles, what will be true over a long period of time.

being able to discover what's useful in the world and go learn how to do it and go create something that's real, working with other people, being multidisciplinary.

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