• Matt says he would love to be a junior engineer now because agents make it easier to build useful tools while learning. 1:28:36
  • He recommends using agents heavily because that is how many developers will work going forward. 1:29:06
  • Grill Me helps juniors by simulating discussion with a senior developer and keeping them close to deeper design questions. 1:29:31
  • Agents would have helped his early spectrogram tool by identifying performance problems such as six nested loops and a 10 FPS frame rate. 1:30:00
  • Matt says the best opportunity belongs to people interested in the process of creating code, not only the code itself. 1:30:24
  • He sees curiosity, adaptability, interest in better software, and attention to personal process as the traits helping engineers thrive with AI. 1:30:49