Steve Yegge praises Cody, a chatbot with a couple neat integrations into the IDE, surfacing tech debt and comprehending a legacy codebase. This may be the same

Steve Yegge praises Cody, a chatbot with a couple neat integrations into the IDE, surfacing tech debt and comprehending a legacy codebase. This may be the same author of Done, and Gets Things Smart (2008), a post about the importance of hiring "seed engineers." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things... That was inspired by Joel Spolsky's post The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing (2006), where the desired attributes are intelligence and delivery. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guide-to-interviewing-version-30/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid... Within this context, Cody seems to promise productivity increases in both types of software folks, both seed engineers and "Just As Soon As I Read Up On The Subject, On The Company's Dime riff-raff like you and me." Technical agility aside, how else can we develop the attributes of a seed engineer? Are personality, vision, and curiosity traits a (coaching) chatbot could also help with?