BONUS Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC With Philip Su

BONUS: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code — Lights-Out Codebases and the End of the IC

Philip Su has spent two decades at the highest levels of software engineering — Microsoft, Meta (where he reached Distinguished Engineer, IC9), OpenAI, and now building his own product solo with AI. In this episode, he makes a provocative case: the individual contributor role as we know it is over, code reviews are becoming a liability, and the best engineers are already managing AI agents instead of writing code themselves.

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