Why This Veteran Engineer Says Better Models Don't Mean Better Software

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Vadim, founder and CEO of Diffco

01:13 The 10x engineer myth and why the metric is an illusion

03:18 Cutting client costs by 4x, and the legacy codebase reality check

05:18 What he'd build today: the most unsexy, regulated industries

09:04 The three kinds of projects worth building

12:56 Wearing the advisor and investor hats

13:34 What he invests in: outsiders who challenge the status quo

16:42 The brutal truth about the founder journey

17:36 Careful founders don't win: energy over age

21:39 From coding assistants to full agentic development

24:59 We need architects, not coders

27:20 Approaching 100% AI-written code on new projects

29:16 The coming pricing crisis in software development

31:55 Where AI still falls short

34:30 Why better models don't equal better output

39:11 Two bold predictions for the next 12 to 18 months

42:13 Wrap up