Weekly Update 528: Reading AI-generated Code & the Economics of Solar

By pure timing coincidence, the Proton CEO’s AI @ Proton, Engineering Manifesto made headlines around the same time as this week’s video. The guy’s management style and choice of language have really rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way, and deservedly so, IMHO. However… this section of his screed really resonated with me:

Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.

Dev jobs as we know them are gone. Dead. And if you disagree, you’re in for a shock in the very near future. But at the same time:

I don’t remember the last time tech has been this exciting. It’s white hot right now. Anyone who loves technology and computers is probably having a great time right now.

— Jack Rhysider 🏴‍☠️ (@JackRhysider) October 30, 2026

Yes! This! Not handwriting code “old school” isn’t something to lament; rather, our unprecedented ability to innovate, create and build things that are meaningful to us is something to be enormously excited about. Anyway, on that topic: