I would love @dhh on @lexfridman podcast

We need this in Bhutan as well

The Case for Fundamentals Until AI completely takes over software development, to the point where understanding fundamental concepts is no longer necessary and human language becomes the new programming interface, I believe strong foundations are more important than ever. Imagine having no idea how instrumentation works in a framework, and then AI generates instrumentation code using a language feature you've never encountered before. The moment you see it, all you can do is ask AI to explain it. Or AI writes infrastructure code to optimize database connection pooling, and you don't understand what it's doing. So you ask AI again. It explains it using another set of technical terms you don't understand. You end up in a loop where AI is translating one layer of unfamiliar abstractions into another. Even worse, you don't still take time to learn and understand these concepts. That's not really engineering. That's delegation without understanding. Until AI no longer needs to depend on languages, frameworks, libraries, databases, runtimes, operating systems, and tools to develop software, and can reason directly from intent to a working system, software engineers should be doubling down on fundamentals, not abandoning them. There's another distinction worth making. If you've been programming for 20 to 30 years, spent that time understanding how computers and software actually work, and concluded that agents can now handle most of the implementation work, that's very different from someone who hasn't been programming for even a decade, never bothered to explore the fundamentals, and now says, "Agents can do everything." Those two people may be using the same AI tools, but they are not operating at the same level. The more capable AI becomes, the more valuable deep understanding becomes. Not necessarily because you need to write every line yourself, but because you need to know what to ask for, what to question, what to reject, what to investigate, and when AI is simply generating something confidently that you don't understand. (Personal experience from using AI)

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I can't believe how stupid people can be and yet so determined. That energy and dedication, man these were sad little people with nothing interesting going on in their lives