The 2% of Engineers Winning the AI Era (Ex-Meta L8)

Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale 📘 My book Technical Behavioral Interview hit #1 on Amazon. If you're interviewing soon, this is the playbook: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt Guest Links: https://linktr.ee/kunchenguid https://www.youtube.com/@kunchenguid https://kunchenguid.substack.com https://x.com/kunchenguid 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=kun-chen-sponsored For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/the-2-of-engineers-winning-the-ai?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 00:00:00 - The Test That Tells You When to Quit 00:03:13 - Learning to Code With Pen and Paper 00:06:26 - Building Game Cheats 00:08:07 - The Internship That Started Everything 00:12:04 - How I Created His Own Opportunities 00:32:37 - Why I Left Management 00:36:37 - The Micromanagement Trap 00:47:27 - Solving Chaos Is the Fun Part 01:14:09 - Are Junior Engineers Actually Dead? 01:16:51 - True Vibe Coders Will Always Hit a Ceiling 01:21:38 - Should We Even Still Have Code Reviews? 01:25:49 - The Human Role Will Keep Shifting 01:30:11 - You Can't Beat the Data Center 01:34:32 - The Talent Stack Will Collapse 01:36:10 - What's Next