I am simply amazed at how quickly I was able to convert my ideas to code and deploy it within hours using the help of Cursor. It was using Sonnet as the model. I feel like this is such an inflection point in my career and the moves we make as software engineers is going to be crucial in leading us upwards or towards obscurity. My boss gives the analogy of game engines and how before their advent, video game makers had to write their own engines. After game engines were commoditized, the bar went up for the quality of games. Similarly, boilerplate code is now commoditized and the bar is going to be raised for writing clean, maintainable software as will it be for the quality and capabilities of software from the end-user's perspective.
Picked up this book at Word in Jersey City on a weekend afternoon. Did not realize at the time as to how old the book was. It made for a fascinating reading when on a five hour plane ride from Newark to San Diego. The coffee and the calmness conspired to motivate me to read this book with an attentive zeal I had not experienced in years. The book is indeed awe-inspiring as the author starts to tear into the meat of the matter. Started to read this book again after a long gap. Started reading at chapter 3. The book talks about how the neocortex of the brain separates mammals from non-mammals and how the presence of a large neocortex has enabled humans to essentially dominate the animal kingdom. As a species, humans have evolved so drastically so as to be on the verge of creating the very intelligence that helped it gain that dominance. Scientific research shows how most of the neocortex is very uniform and the fundamental structure that makes up this uniformity is a neocortical c...
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