THE NOTEBOOK / QUENTIN MAYO

GenAI

Quentin Mayo’s field notes on generative AI, software engineering, practical coding workflows, and the tradeoffs of building with language models.

Engineering Is Becoming Easier. Building Something People Care About Isn’t.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time writing about engineering fundamentals. I’ve talked about learning algorithms, understanding distributed systems, thinking about compute, security, infrastructure,…

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