It’s a razor that seems applicable in any domain.

1. You have to love the problem you want to solve more than your ego.

2. Speed is everything

I could be wrong and my sample size is 5 engineers on this new paradigm.

The newer engineers and the older engineers that seem to thrive are lazy smart. They want to do less work. And they build in small sprints to tackle the next assumption. They care the most about a solution and less than their title of engineer. AI is like a god send. One of these engineers is a top 1,000 in the World who I’ve loved working with for 10 years or so. He was adamant about embracing this. Never once did he feel threatened.

The ones that feel like it’s coming for their job or that they need to go into ego preservation mode tend to dismiss everything quickly. Or so it seems. Newer engineers in this category (2-5 years fresh out of code school or something) with this problem threw their hands up and just switched careers. Again I have a small sample size it just seems the pattern is whether they want to be right or want to be apart of the right solution.

The main point is you cannot be high ego and solution oriented at the same time. You have to love the problem more than your ego or you will hate AI because it’s a threat. If you have low ego, that many years of experience and see how much faster you can go then I’m betting on that person 100 times out of 100.