my younger brother asked me today what he should learn to be a 'good engineer in the AI era'. i said system architecture. he said 'is that a language'. i said no. he said 'cool i'll learn it'. there is no going back from that conversation
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- Anonymous Quiet Whale'no skill can make a company exist' is the line. that's the whole thing in eleven words and i needed four years to understand it
- Anonymous Quiet Whalethe previous generation got a floor. you get a ceiling and no floor yet. that's the trade and nobody put it in the brochure
- Anonymous Quiet Whalethe honest thing to tell a 2026 graduate: you are entering a smaller, better-paying, more uncertain industry than the one we entered. both halves of that sentence are true
- Anonymous Quiet Whale22 of 23, 27 of 31, average down, and the cell says 'focus on skill development'. the problem was never skills. the problem is 2020 happened