Chris Quish

Orchestrai8 CEO, Human Macro Thinker, Corporate Optimizer, Heavy Live Music Consumer, 2nd Gen Bronco Restorer, Hockey Nut

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Marc Andreessen: AI coding doesn’t eliminate programmers — it redefines them. The job is no longer typing code line by line, it’s orchestrating 10 coding bots in parallel, arguing with them, debugging their output, changing the spec, and pushing them toward the right result. But here’s the catch: if you don’t understand how to write code yourself, you can’t evaluate what the AI gives you.

The next layer of programming isn’t writing scripts — it’s supervising AI that writes them. Today’s best programmers spend their day jumping between terminals, managing multiple coding bots, fixing mistakes, and refining instructions. The irony? You still need deep fundamentals, because without them, you won’t know when the AI is wrong.

The job of the programmer has changed. Now it’s about arguing with coding bots, debugging AI-generated code, and understanding why something doesn’t work or isn’t fast enough. AI abstracts the work — but only people who truly understand code can tell if the abstraction is doing the right thing.

Programmers aren’t going away — they’re becoming 10x, 100x, even 1,000x more productive. Tasks are changing, the job is changing, but humans are still overseeing the process, evaluating results, fixing errors, and making judgment calls. AI changes how we code, not who is responsible.

The future programmer isn’t replaced by AI — they’re upgraded by it. You still need to learn how to write and understand code, because when the AI gets it wrong, humans are the ones who have to know why. That up-leveling of capability is the real revolution.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

Yep. Building one of those layers now. For CFOs

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people think we’re in an AI bubble because a lot of AI just doesn’t work:

“If you just buy LLMs off the shelf and try to do any of this, it won’t work.”

“It’s not precise enough. You can’t do underwriting. You can’t do these things that are regulated.”

“People have tried things that just can never work. You buy a LLM, put it on your stack, and wonder why it’s not working.”

“What you’re going to see, especially in America, is people trying to do something like Ontology by hand.”

“Once you build a software layer to orchestrate and manage the LLMs in a language your enterprise understands, you actually can create value.”

“There’s a lot of discussion on if we’re in an AI bubble. What is the meaning of this bubble? If anything, we’re just in a lag. There’s a lot of AI, some of it works.”

“Go back to the battlefield context: everybody in the world assumed this would not work. But now it does work. Now the question is, ‘How can I get it to work for my country?’”

“Palantir barely has a sales force. In fact, it seems to be getting smaller and smaller every time I go see them.”

[Jordi Visser @jvisserlabs]

1/
There’s a lot of speculation about why Trump moved against Maduro.
Most macro takes default to the familiar explanation: oil.

That framing is understandable but it misses the AI geo-political lens which has been the story since rare earth became the new oil in the AI military world.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@jvisserlabs @jvisserlabs where can I get the visual you reference?

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@Verizon CRM - from self-provisioning to chat/store/ AI support - is completely broken. Cancelled my service, sold my stock. Such a time-wasting, frustrating experience. @hansvestberg might consider trying it yourself. Whatever is implemented doesn’t work and it’s eroding margins.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@elonmusk @grok what is going on?

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@ThatEricAlper Gotta be this one. 💯 Remember Rapture? We listened to it over and over to learn the words, so much so we scratched the record and had to buy another.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@train Hey guys! What’s up with the Wilmington, NC show — haven’t gotten refunds and no word on whether it’ll be part of this NA tour. Can’t wait to see you this summer — wherever I can!

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@elonmusk Did the SS increase trend with the expected number of retirees? Prob not. People who shouldn’t get disability are getting it while those who need it suffer needless investigations y/y. The system of allocating SS benefits to non-retirees needs to change.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@marklevinshow Three more common sense ideas:
> Tax free severance payments (retro to ‘24 to counteract The Great Layoff of 2024)
> 100% mortgage interest deduction for <$1m AGIs
> Eliminate 401k withdrawal penalties for unemployed and to invest in LLCs.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@CollinRugg Three more common sense ideas:
> Tax free severance payments (retro to ‘24 to counteract The Great Layoff of 2024)
> 100% mortgage interest deduction for <$1m AGIs
> Eliminate 401k withdrawal penalties for unemployed and to invest in LLCs.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@charliekirk11 Three more common sense ideas:
> Tax free severance payments (retro to ‘24 to counteract The Great Layoff of 2024)
> 100% mortgage interest deduction for <$1m AGIs
> Eliminate 401k withdrawal penalties for unemployed and to invest in LLCs.
@RepJasonSmith

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@WhiteHouse @karolineleavitt As one of the millions of parents of fentanyl addicts, a drug that has absolutely ruined the life of my beautiful, talented, intelligent daughter, I applaud this!!! Now let’s not forget their mental health and addiction support needs.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@googoodolls Pittsburgh, PA?

[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG]

The ‘absolutely horrific’ fentanyl crisis started long before the spike in border crossings https://t.co/lrEHQkEIuS

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@JoeyMannarinoUS It’s also contributing to the homeless crisis and high rent prices. Theses properties are not utilized to max capacity and are taken off the rental market as tax write-offs

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@RonDeSantis @RonDeSantis take it from one who made it out of the swamp: use less words, give us more passion. America needs you.

PS: simplified and lower taxes would be nice too.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@RobSchneider 💯 thanks for getting the word out!!!

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@HomeDepot: THE worst major appliance purchase experience ever. Do not ever buy from them. It’s been an absolute disaster.

[Chris Quish @ChrisQuish1]

@GOPLeader @SteveScalise @HouseGOP @RepStefanik @RepTomEmmer @RepBice @RepMikeJohnson @USRepGaryPalmer For the love of God and country stop giving Ds and the MSM red meat, give America what it deserves - a complete focus on economic, security and educational policies to move us forward. NOT scandals! That’s what we want. Another Contract with America #haleybarbour #newtgingrich