Is burn out correlated to the number of tasks someone takes on at once? If you can do five tasks in parallel for 6 hours a day, I wouldn't think that would cause burn out.
Burn out is probably just correlated with the amount you overwork yourself. And just like before AI, great engineers tend to have a higher threshold for what they consider overworked.
Thinking about it a little more, the qualities that made an engineer great before AI are still very similar today, but weighed slightly differently.
Sequential implies a sequence, ie many tasks. One single task can't be sequential or parallel. Or you are talking about a feature that is broken in multiple sequential tasks.
They said "many" sequential tasks in "parallel". Sure the singular task is still sequential, but in the end more is being done.
Including approaching a burnout faster than doing one task at a time.
Is burn out correlated to the number of tasks someone takes on at once? If you can do five tasks in parallel for 6 hours a day, I wouldn't think that would cause burn out.
Burn out is probably just correlated with the amount you overwork yourself. And just like before AI, great engineers tend to have a higher threshold for what they consider overworked.
Thinking about it a little more, the qualities that made an engineer great before AI are still very similar today, but weighed slightly differently.
Sequential implies a sequence, ie many tasks. One single task can't be sequential or parallel. Or you are talking about a feature that is broken in multiple sequential tasks.
they're very clearly talking about multiple independent features, each of which may have sequential lines of work.