Engineer: I used to write code all day, now I think about compute and AI economics
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-11-11
A scientific software engineer reflects that he used to spend hours daily hand-writing code and discussing libraries, architectures and design patterns; now all his time goes to thinking about compute, hedging, AI demand and economics — yet the job feels identical. A first-person snapshot of how AI is rewriting what engineering work actually is.
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