Ben Tucker — Chegg's SVP of Engineering — talks about college, career, LLMs, the future of software engineering and Twitter threads

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A fascinating conversation with Chegg's Senior VP of Engineering touching on his path from getting hooked on the Web in middle school to his current position at Chegg, to ... "retirement". Ben talks about his experience in college, why it's important, and the one regret he has about it. Ben talks about the engineers of the future: their new goals, standards, and abilities that Large Language Models bring to their toolbox. And how it affects us at Chegg. Among other interesting things, we have Ben's story about actually inventing and building Twitter threads 🤯