What an excellent read. Balanced and full of real insight. How rare that is nowadays.

Different strokes for different fokes.

In 2026 I don't want to use a slow interpreted non-typed language like Python.

C++ (for example) has excellent super fast matrix libraries where you can do AxB.

Asking that kind of minutia detailed question in an interview is seriously bad practice.

It is easy to come up with questions that the author would fail in an interview. Simply because there are thousands of minutia details that most senior developers wouldn't know about.

What the interviewer should focus on is the ability to solve real world problems. For example by walking the interviewee through a real world business scenario and letting the interviewee describe how he/she would solve the problem.

What's the name of the youtube channel?

In my experience (30+ years) writing good code (and good automatic tests) makes me way more productive.

Both when initially writing the code and later when maintaining it.

Good code dramatically reduce bugs and makes the remaining bugs more visible.

I spend almost zero time fixing bugs. Because there aren't many. Not a brag. Just the truth.

Professional compiler writer here. All you really need to use is a recursive descent parser. Very easy to understand. Very easy to implement. While also being very powerful.

> that the world is fundamentally analog

Whether the world is discrete or analog is still an open problem in science. And it looks as if there is more and more evidence that the world is actually discrete at the quantum level.

There is no such evidence. The widely accepted models of physics are all continuous. If you see headlines like "physicists think our world might be discrete" please read them as "scientists cured cancer in mice".

> someone wins a Fields using a proof-assistant in an essential way.

Terence Tao is actively using LEAN and working with the LEAN community to prove leading edge mathematics.

When you take responsibility for your own life, and learn how to control your reactions to your emotions.

I am an avid gamer. However Factorio is the only game I have been playing for years. It is truly unique.