Charles Lazaroni

AI Engineer @ File AI |
MS Applied DS @ Syracuse |
Personal Account

[biglawbro @biglawbro]

just met up w @abraham_jmb, a rising 2L in the top 10% of his class at SMU. he didn't crack a book and had claude teach him like a toddler

my confidence in AI's legal ability is thro the roof after the mtg

before it, i sent him a bunch of loan agreement markups

he then trained claude w them

i sent him a clean loan agreement that he had never shown claude

the comments to the loan agreement were essentially the same as the ones in the precedent. we're talking incisive, ny market, top tier special sauce comments

my only criticism is that it didn't make enough comments but i kno Abe is serious when he says we can get it to

he uses the Terminal instead of Claude code

he has a great summer job lined up but didn't get a job at another firm bc he talks about AI too much😭

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

The top trait to look for in engineers circa 2026 is the ability to disqualify needlessly complex solutions.

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@imjszhang @ethanrkho hard disagree, AI is fundamentally a service, not a product… like electricity or internet connection

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

@notsunsakis @bcherny don't call it vibe coding - that's associated with yolo i smash head on keyboard, not thinking, engineering, building, testing, debugging, iterating.

agentic engineering, or just...coding. We move faster, but it's still hard.

[Matt @matt503ea5sf9z5]

They're doing drone strikes with a KANBAN board and story points

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@figma is this the comeback of figma??

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@thdxr hot take but i think using ai exposes you to a more diverse set of problems therefore making you a better problem solver, but a worse coder

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

The future is generalist. Everyone will do everything with insight from their respective area of expertise.

[Carl Rivera @carlrivera]

“everyone is an engineer now.”

The real shift is that everyone is a 7/10 at *every job*.

So let’s stop gatekeeping and let everyone use design to generate ideas. Craft owners own the last mile — turning a 7/10 concept into a 10/10 experience.

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@based16z

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@GergelyOrosz i hope that would be a given. its just that efficiency is the biggest gain here therefore the topic of discussion

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@callebtc i cant believe people are upset that solving problems is more fun and fast than it used to be. there is only more software to develop, not less.

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@GergelyOrosz yeah im actually suprised this turned out to be real, kind of a kid who cried wolf situation

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@rohanpaul_ai there are no more SWEs just members of the technical staff

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@GergelyOrosz @bcherny i enjoy my job more than ever. its been a pleasure to build things so quickly only limited by my imagination

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

YC is the american idol of accelerators

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@mntruell incredible, ive been hearing similar anecdotes from researcher friends, AI is changing the way we solve closed-loop hard problems

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@tthomson @jack @blocks the way i see it…
more people doing more things atomically with less red tape is the way of the future

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@tthomson @jack @blocks my big takeaway is that the building block that forms companies is changing. i think we will still see big companies… just composed differently. is that advantageous for small teams? could be… but headcount is still king imo

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@zivdotcat “people are paying 30k a year to look at the nvidia stock price, lol they are all so dumb”

This is a case study in ai engineers having 0 domain knowledge

[Charles Lazaroni @charlesmakesit]

@ns123abc here u go