Young engineers no longer know what a thread is — brains being "Clauded"
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-09-21
The author observes young senior engineers who no longer know what a thread is, mistaking it for Meta's Threads. He argues good engineers still need to understand design choices or risk becoming "meat proxies for prompts," and recommends reflecting on what worked and what didn't after every big AI session — before burning another pile of tokens.
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