Paddy

.. critical reasoning and ability to deal with ambiguity. Your role as a human is to contribute that at the relevant points in the process…

…We’re now in the business of designing processes that agents can perform end to end, but there can be human-shaped holes in those processes where we inject our reasoning, review, decisions, whatever. Those holes will close over time, but right now they are material for many engineering tasks. The result though is that the things we do as humans now are genuinely different - we’re not doing end to end tasks, but we’re filling in where necessary;..

…the challenge is to design our processes to maximise the efficiency of the human input into them; we need to look everywhere for opportunities to shift-left the human input - resolve ambiguity at the earliest possible stage…

…It’s a lot less efficient to reverse-engineer the intent of a pull request from the code than it is to review the intent explicitly…

…So the key optimisation challenge for the software development process is about getting the human input at the right time, shifting left, and optimising signal density in the information you get humans to work with….

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Mike

We believe that the era of AI does not diminish the value of human talent, but instead, raises the stakes. The scarce resource in this decade is not computation. It is judgment.