Tobi Lütke

That is not their role.

They are tools.

Like, hammers don't make people feel dumb.

You know, like, screwdrivers don't make people feel dumb.

We are the only...

field, the only field of tooling, support, and infrastructure that somehow is allowed to make humans feel not good about themselves somehow.

And it's just normalized.

What we actually should do is give people superpowers, because that's what it does to us, like to us, the engineers, to us, the technical people, computers.

The way I talk about computers will be

are clearly very different from how most people talk about computers.

Why?

Because I do love them for what they can do.

They are incredible.

But to get the power out that I can extract out of a computer, again, I had to sacrifice my youth.

It's like path dependent for people who for

unexplained reasons, wanted to cultivate rare but valuable skills around computer programming and understand them at an intrinsic level.

And most people can experience them as the incredible, most powerful tools that you may have ever invented.

But everyone else should do that too.

And so I think

Luckily, I think now with AI, we're getting there.