The Intelligence Delusion I think We’ve been pursuing only half of intelligence for seventy years. When Alan Turing proposed his famous test in 1950, he made a brilliant and practical choice. Faced with the impossible question of “what is consciousness?”, he focused on something measurable: could a machine engage in conversation sophisticated enough to fool a human judge? It was an elegant solution to a philosophical problem that had no clear answer. ...
The Broken Code Advantage There’s a moment in every programmer’s career when they realize something counterintuitive: the people getting promoted aren’t the ones writing the most code. They’re the ones fixing it. This seems backwards. We celebrate the architects of new systems, the builders of elegant APIs, the creators of innovative features. But if you watch closely, you’ll notice that the engineers who become indispensable, the ones who get pulled into the most important meetings, who get the urgent Slack messages, who somehow always seem to know what’s really going on, aren’t the prolific feature builders. They’re the debuggers. ...