747s and Coding Agents
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Comparing a career flying the 747 and a career coding with AI assistance.
747s and Coding Agents A couple years ago, I was on the way back from a work trip to Germany. I had been upgraded to business class, and I sat next to a Belgian 747 pilot, probably in his fifties or sixties. We talked a fair bit about our careers. I had left the Navy and started professionally programming less than a year before. He had been a pilot since shortly after graduating university, and had flown the 747 for about twenty years. He had studied mechanical engineering at school, and he told me in great depth about the variable geometry jet turbines in modern aircraft, which could remain
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