🏠 Coding is solved. Now I'm technical AF

GM! It's Brett. I got ranked in the top 1% of engineers at small startups last week. Coming from someone who didn't know what a pull request was two years ago, that one hit different.

A lot happened in AI this week. Let's get into it.

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I got ranked in the top 1% of engineers at small startups on a platform called Weave. Number one of all non-technical people.

A year ago I had no idea how any of it really worked.

Here's what changed.

I stopped trying to understand code and started understanding concepts. I ask agents to explain things using my own metaphors. Once I have the mental model, the code starts making sense.

I treat agents like a great manager. I ask questions instead of giving commands. Socratic method. Push back, probe, make it explain its reasoning. The output quality went up immediately.

I use what already exists. 99 times out of 100, whatever you're building has been built. Open source, GitHub, the whole internet is out there. I point the agent at it and say "do that."

I kicked off an agent to read through our entire codebase and write markdown files explaining how everything works. Now I actually understand what we built.

None of this requires a CS degree. It requires being a good manager and being genuinely curious.

Full breakdown in the thread.

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Boris Cherny built Claude Code as a quick hack. It became the tool handling 4% of all public GitHub commits. Daily active users doubled last month.

His actual position: coding is solved. Not a provocative take, that's what he believes. Spotify's best developers haven't written code since December.

The counterintuitive part: Anthropic deliberately underfunded teams and gave them unlimited tokens. Limited resources plus unlimited capability forced real-world iteration. Better products came out of constraint.

Cherny also briefly left for Cursor. Stayed two weeks and came back. The person who built the best AI coding tool in the world tried the main competitor and turned around.

What's next after coding? Cowork, Anthropic's push into knowledge work. If coding is solved, everything else is next.

The full conversation is worth your time. Lenny pulls out the stuff Cherny doesn't usually talk about.

This karpathy post is older but its kept popping up this week.

One of these is AI generated. Answer the poll for the left image.

Last week’s poll: If you guessed NOT AI-generated… you were right.

🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~29%)
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Nope (~61%)

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