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YCombinator video about the future of engineering hiring - summary: in an AI world only "taste" matters and you can only build "taste" through time and "10,000 hours of deliberate practice" ... not good news for bootcamps

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u/jcasimir wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

It's kind of ironic for YC, who's whole business is hypothetically about "we help you make a business without an MBA or relevant experience" to then turn and talk about 10,000 hours of deliberate practice and developing taste.

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah it is, they talk about that too, like that their founders often do NOT have that expertise, and they talk about how their founders have to have the ability to review the work from those engineers, and was a lot of discussion about how reviewing code and having intuitions about code that's good or bad or works or not, or solved the problem well or not is very important..... .... but they then call that "taste" and it's unresolved how people get that taste if AI does everything to begin with and it's harder and harder to get the raw experience.