> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. Unfortunately m

> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. Unfortunately many tech companies have become so bureaucratic that a strong engineer is the person who can excel in the most important meetings. They are either in meetings or on the way to a meeting. Over the years, they gain institutional knowledge at the cost of losing engineering know-how, to the point that they can't even draw good enough boxes. Case in point, just see how many super senior engineers who "specialize" in search and NLP couldn't even articulate a simple RAG pipeline.