my significantly less cool or easy-to-pronounce real name. (It rhymes with “willow”, not “silo” or “kilo”.)

May the next chapter begin. /fin

Anyway, I’ve never tried particularly hard to conceal my real identity, and today I’m dropping the pretence entirely. My business will still be known as Arrowsmith Labs, but I’m officially retiring the name “George Arrowsmith” in favour of 3/

I don’t remember how or why I landed on “Arrowsmith”, but it’s apparently a real name if you google it. And for the Americans who have asked: no, I didn’t name myself after a Bostonian rock band — I didn’t even realise you Yanks pronounce it the same way. Dream on. 2/

that mediocre devs don’t stand a chance. But the number of QA/tester jobs is going to go up.

Or someone will figure out how to reliably test code as quickly (and cheaply) as an LLM can write it. That person's going to make a lot of money.

you need the reassurance of human eyes on it. And human eyes don’t scale.

In the short term I think that the total number of software engineering jobs is probably going to decline — a small number of ultra-cracked AI whisperers are going to crank out so much code 2/

Congratulations! Nothing is more rewarding than fatherhood 🙂

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