- Bryan Cantrill discusses company-destroying bugs that had no precedent and were unsolvable by existing documentation or AI reasoning.
- Breakthroughs required human values like resilience, teamwork, rigor, and optimism, not just intelligence.
- Cantrill criticizes the overemphasis on intelligence, advocating for super collaboration and super teamwork instead.
- In hiring, values such as teamwork and optimism are more important than raw intelligence.
- The talk argues that pretending AI can engineer autonomously does a disservice to human humanity.