The New Engineering Mindset for the AI Era

After two years of breakthroughs, models that code, reason, and write — why does it still feel like we’re falling behind?

We’ve never had more powerful AI, yet we’ve never felt more overwhelmed trying to use it. This video dives into why — and explores a new way of thinking about AI that can finally calm the chaos.

In this episode, I share what I call the AI First Mindset, built around three simple principles:
Compute. Cooperation. Curiosity.

We’ll unpack what that really means, how it helps you work with ever-changing systems, and why “locking in” best practices might actually be what’s holding you back.

From Rich Sutton’s “Bitter Lesson” to the way modern tools like Codex and Cursor embody this new mindset, we’ll look at how to stop chasing the wave — and start riding it.

If you’ve been feeling like AI is moving too fast to keep up — this one’s for you.

Resources
The Bitter Lesson : Rich Sutton 2019
http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIde...


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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - The Problem
01:59 - Old AI Coding
06:07 - Not Monolithic
10:41 - The Bitter Lesson
12:50 - Compute will be the next frontier
15:25 - Codex applying the Bitter Lession
16:18 - Bringing it home
16:48 - Compute
18:11 - Cooperation
19:41 - Curiosity
21:53 - Conclusion