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So I’ve been thinking about tech careers lately, and I think there might be a better way to understand what’s going on. Most advice I see is like “find your passion” or “play to your strengths” but that doesn’t really help when you’re trying to figure out where to go next. What I’ve noticed instead is that the industry has kind of organized itself around three different ways of optimizing, and understanding this might be more useful. ...

I know there are two kinds of people in tech - one who just care about the product, and then the others who care about the actual engineering and code. This post is for the second kind of people. For the first ones, it’s actually good news - AI writes code and you can get a ‘product’. I don’t know how far that’ll take you in the long run, I’m still pretty skeptical about it, but hey, it’s great for you if that’s what you’re optimizing for! But it’s not so great if you’re a junior and you actually care about understanding the concepts and ideas and the science - not just code that works and you don’t even know it exists. ...