Vibecoding, Negative Expertise, and the Future of Engineering

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:50:26 -0500

I’m having a hard time with some of the public narrative that AI spells out the demise of the developer as a profession. LLM-assisted development is a generational shift in how techincal work gets done–and those best positioned to benefit from it are the ones who understand the code being produced and the infrastructure on which it runs. The shift may lead to an increased demand for people with technical expertise and the creation of VibeOps as a category.

Unbundling AWS

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:11:35 -0500

Note: this post is republished from Taylor's personal blog in 2020, but served as a core part of the original thesis for Abstraction

Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time digging into cloud infrastructure and technical tools as a space for investing. One of the emergent behaviors of technology trends is the accelerating advantage of being a winner, played out with network effects or scale effects (or both!). Since its mid-2000’s launch, AWS has obviously become a juggernaut, growing so quickly and throwing off so much cash that even Amazon can’t put it to work fast enough (!). Getting a new software product to market has never been as cheap or fast as it is today, despite the fact that the surface area of in-depth knowledge required to build high-performing software has never been higher.

Early stage capital for developers on Abstraction Capital

Vibecoding, Negative Expertise, and the Future of Engineering

Unbundling AWS