I just open sourced my “are you just an engineer?” simple test.
YOU are just an engineer. nothing more. me? im much more. engineer, philosopher, writer, capital allocator, ai whisperer, etc. you write code. i decide how the rest of the universe plays out. have i lost you? lets think about it. you wear your company branded backpack and go to work everyday to rattle off jira tickets. i delegate agent swarms using unreleased internal models with capabilities you wouldn't believe. you watch netflix in your spare time. i debate the smartest people in the world in lesswrong blog posts. when i say "the landian reading is..." then thats what the landian reading on the situation is. while you are at balboa cafe getting drunk with you coworkers im at a secret warehouse edm rave with techno-priestesses summoning the machine god, helping it stay the course to retroactively build the future intelligence singularity from the past. but sure. you and i are both software engineers.
