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So for example, if we automate vulnerability finding without automating patching, we will shift the bottleneck from vulnerabilities to patching to remediation, and we will simply drown or inundate human software engineers in new vulnerabilities to fix and patch. This is not a problem whose end state we can solve partially.

Michael Dalton
3w ago

If a true human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That's 15x today's spot prices. Of course you might expect that if we have 10 million extra software engineers, the marginal value of a software engineer would decrease and so that H100 wouldn't necessarily be able to produce 15 more revenue than it currently does. But I actually don't know if that's true.

1mo ago

Practical quality beats theoretical quality every time. In theory, a human engineer with infinite time and focus might produce better code than an AI agent. In practice, humans lose context over days, have decaying attention spans on hard-but-tedious problems, and skip benchmarks they know they should run. AI agents maintain consistent focus, run every test, and can work on problems continuously for days or weeks.

3mo ago

Engineers who come into technical interviews focused only on finding a working solution fastest are missing the point—'the robots can find a working solution faster than they can.' The human role has shifted to something broader: understanding the full suite of tools, knowing when to use AI versus when to step in personally, and bringing taste and judgment to the process.

3mo ago

Your code is better documentation than your docs. Al realized public documentation couldn't answer his enterprise customers' detailed technical questions. By pulling all 15 of Galileo's repositories into VS Code and querying them with Claude Code, he can now answer questions about how services cascade together, how features actually work, and deployment specifics that aren't captured anywhere else.

5mo ago

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