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Episode 524: My CTO AI-codes big piles of slop and early mornings, late meetings
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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work for a small software company on a team of about 7 or 8 engineers. I like working here. I like the people, the autonomy, the pay, my boss, and the stack among other things. I try to remind myself of this regularly so I don’t take it for granted. I’ve been here for about 2.5 years and would love to continue working here. Our CTO, like many, has become a big AI cowboy coder. Every few months, he vibe codes a new project and then deci...
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it takes more than getting a one trillion dollar aws bill to be a cloud native engineer this is soft skills engineering episode 524 i am your host dave smith i'm your host jameson dance soft skills engineering is a weekly advice podcast for people who just blindly click the pay the invoice button and end up making amazon even richer i think they should have made it up to
everybody by sending them a $1 trillion and one cent credit to offset the $1 trillion bill. That would be cooler than saying, oops, it was a mistake. Ignore that. That would be the accounting way to do things, right? Like, no, we can't. It's a read-only journal. We can only add new entries. Yeah. That would probably wreak havoc on a bunch of startups accounting somehow. Surely that would
somehow. Yeah. Imagine the time series charge showing your spending and like there's one month that's so tall that all the other months are zero pixels high. Yeah. I have bad news about our burn rate.
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