Thorsten Ball
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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I think as an engineer or any of the three
You now need to know a lot more about the other parts.
Like as an engineer, you cannot see yourself as the person anymore who types out a spec or turns a product PRD into code.
I think you need to be aware of business, you need to be aware of a product, you need to know and have some taste for software.
Otherwise, I think the value of your work will diminish over time because the pure typing out of code
For most of the code, you know, exceptions being a John Carmack and you know whatever, for most of the code, I think the value will diminish.
And we've already seen this like compare a GitHub contribution chart today, its value to say two years ago, right?
And to come back to the the second part, like vibes and you know whatnot, I think we don't have any set evals.
We don't.
And this was controversial.
Up until a week ago, I think, when uh I I think uh Boris from or two weeks ago from Anthropics that they don't have evals for the coding agent too.
Think uh
But um we don't and we haven't had them.
I've built evals before, I fine-tuned models before.
I know that they're good.
I love evals.
I was addicted to LLM as a judge, I wrote about LLM as a judge, but for a coding agent who's supposed to work in many different code bases, who's supposed to work with many different types of
Of prompt, who's supposed to work with many different types of tasks.
It's a time investment that we cannot afford with everything changing and having to stay fast.
And if you ship 20 times a day, you will get a lot of good feedback.
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