prediction:
we'll soon view coding the way we view using spreadsheets today - a commonplace skill that every white collar worker is expected to have. Knowing how to code will sit alongside email, making slides, word processing, etc etc. It'll be <18 months before this is widespread in every job description
Customer-facing employees will code as well as sell/market/support, so that they convert their domain expertise into repeatable workflows and software. We'll have an explosion of internal bespoke apps. But to complement all of this coding happening at the edges, we'll also have centrally expert teams of agentic coders who build infrastructure, make it secure/scalable, and create canonical software. These central teams will help scale agentic engineering.
There's a spreadsheet metaphor here too -- yes, if you are an expert at spreadsheets, you write macros, build huge models, etc., we'll put you in a group of your own. It's called Finance. :) We'll have the same central teams to help manage the widespread use of coding tools throughout the org.
You might ask, won't this be a mess? What happens in a world where everyone has many many variations of bespoke software? (It's already happening) Maybe! But I think it'll be fine, in the same way that it's fine to make a copy of a spreadsheet or deck. Making it easy to fork makes it easy to participate. But you might want an "official" forecast maintained by an official finance person, in the same way that there will be variations of canonical and bespoke software
excited for the Gdrive of many many forks of disposable apps made and shared by my co-workers!!! 😂
NEWS: Amazon has filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny @SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centers, going as far to claim the project would take “centuries” to deploy.
Amazon: “Deploying the proposed million-satellite constellation would take centuries, even assuming the availability of all global launch capacity to do so. In short, the Application seems to describe a lofty ambition rather than a real plan—and a speculative placeholder rather than a complete application under the Commission’s rules.”
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Bryce Miller just threw two incredibly clutch pitches -- a 1-2 splitter in the dirt to get Daulton Varsho swinging and another splitter that Ernie Clement tapped into a 2-3 double play to escape a bases loaded, no outs jam.
Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren’t built in a day, and as they unfold, they will be out of sync with the news cycle. The peace researcher John Galtung pointed out that if a newspaper came out once every fifty years, it would not report half a century of celebrity gossip and political scandals. It would report momentous global changes such as the increase in life expectancy
— Steven Pinker