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AWS CEO said that most developers could stop coding as soon as AI takes over. I disagree, and here’s why. Sure, there’s a tremendous leap in how AI is helping engineers write code. I’ve been using GitHub co-pilot for more than a year (and recently switched to Cursor), and it’s been incredible. I’m able to write full features in Go, even though I’m not super fluent in that language (I’m more of a Java & Typescript kind of engineer), and I feel that larger and larger chunks of the code I write are being generated by AI. And apparently - I’m not the only one. GitHub CEO recently said in a talk I attended that according to internal research more than 40% of the code committed to git was written by AI. This will probably continue to grow as the models get better. But, writing code is only a small part of an engineer’s job. When I build features, I feel that I spend less than 20% of my time actually coding within my IDE. Most of the time, I’m either collaborating with the rest of the team to understand how the piece I’m writing will interact with the rest of the system; debugging production issues; discussing the engineering vision of the team; researching technologies. So using AI doesn’t leave me out of things to do - it just allows me to allocate more time on these 80% tasks. The ability to do these tasks come from years of experience actually writing code. Which gets to my last point - the main issue I see with the rise of these co-pilots is the increasing gap between junior and senior developers. If you’re just out of the university, and start coding, you no longer need to understand how programming languages work. You just write a prompt and get a complete workable solution. You probably have minimal knowledge of why this works. But, you’re missing out on understanding how to actually code. And thus you’re missing what will help you become a senior software engineer, being able to tackle all the 80% stuff that I mentioned above. So no, I don’t think AI will make engineers redundant. If junior engineers rely too much on AI, avoiding getting their hands dirty and understanding the code they're writing - they'll surely become redundant. Or maybe they already are. How much of your day-to-day can be automated? Are you worried about AI taking over your work?

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The interview to Y Combinator is 10 minutes long and during those 10 minutes, 3 YC partners will grill your product from every possible angle. Exactly 2 years ago, while Gal Kleinman (my co-founder) was on a vacation, we started our YC journey. This is how it went down: It was a sunny Wednesday, Gal was in Vietnam, basically in the middle of nowhere, and I was in my apartment in Tel Aviv. I received an invite from YC for an interview to be held on the next day. In the invitation e-mail they told us we don’t need to (and we shouldn’t even) prepare for the interview. Prepping can actually reduced the chances of getting in, that’s what they said. So of course - I spent my entire Thursday preparing. I read every piece Paul Graham has ever written online; and every blog post a YC alumni has ever published about their experience getting into YC. I learned that the interview is short and quick; I should expect to be asked lots of questions, most of them aren’t even technical; and that I need to provide short answers so that the partners have enough time to ask me all the questions they want to ask. Thursday, 7:30pm. The interview started. I was sitting on a sofa in Tel-Aviv, Gal is in a small farm in Vietnam, trying to find a place with a decent WiFi reception. A flood of questions started: “What is your product? Why did you decide to work on that? When are you launching? Why is it only in January? What are the issues you’re expecting to encounter along the way? Who are you selling to? What types of companies? OK thank you very much, goodbye.” It went by WAY too fast. I felt that I was too stressed, I spoke too much; or too little; and didn’t respond with good enough answers. In the invitation e-mail they tell you they might want to do a followup interview on the same day so you should be available until 3:30pm PT (that’s 1:30am Israel time). I felt the interview went SO bad that there’s no reason for me to stay up. I fell asleep at around midnight. 2 hours later I woke up to check my phone and saw a new e-mail from YC telling me that unfortunately we weren’t accepted to the next batch. I panicked, then I woke up realizing it was just a dream. So I checked my phone, and saw a rejection mail from YC! Oh no! Then I woke up again. Checked my phone. Rejection e-mail! Woken up again. It’s 5am. Am I really awake now? I checked my phone and saw a Whatsapp message from one of the partners who interviewed me, Aaron Epstein. He wrote that he knows it’s late in Tel-Aviv but wanted me to reply if I’m available. I immediately replied, and 5 hours later got a call from him. “Congratulations! You got into the next batch of YCombinator, Winter 2023. YC invests $500k in each company under a standard SAFE. Do you accept?”

Super excited to increase a small part of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. If you're building anything "agent-ic" / "human-in-the-loop" then give Burr a try. It's great to use something that doesn't have vendor lock in like the majority of other LLM tracing tools. H/T to Traceloop for the open source contributions that made this possible.

A few months ago I gave a talk on using #OpenTelemetry to monitor #GenerativeAI. ICYMI, the high level was that there were three levels of monitoring that OpenTelemetry can help with: 1. Is the system behaving well? 2. Are the AI components/infra behaving well? 3. Is the output good (definition left intentionally vague...)? A good AI observability system has to do all 3 -- while (1) and (2) are table-stakes for OpenTelemetry, (3) is a lot more complicated more complicated. I'm really excited to say that #Burr now fully supports OpenTelemetry traces, and can help you answer all three about the applications you build! In this blog post we talk about multiple points of integration -- how Burr ingest OpenTelemetry traces, and how you can log Burr traces to any provider. Big thanks to Traceloop for building a powerful AI observability platform as well as the OpenLLMetry library -- they're the primary .provider example for the post!

My Y Combinator Starter Pack 🧡 We use most of these tools every day: - Stripe: billing, payments - Rippling: payroll, benefits (eg insurance) - June.so: customer analytics - Pylon: customer support, specifically Slack channel management - Traceloop: LLM monitoring - Webflow: our CMS, where all my blog posts go - Docker, Inc: no idea, ask Matthew Lenhard 🤷♂️ - Dittofeed: automation for email - Streak: CRM - Optery: removes our employees’ personal data from the internet And, of course, Positional: content marketing and SEO On the personal side, I would also recommend checking out Pure (YC S23) if you are into coins. What else should we be using?