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created: 2026-06-19
updated: 2026-06-19
sources:
  - blog/2026-06-19_steve-yegge-flat-curve-society.md
tags: [person, blogger, ex-amazon, ex-google, ex-sourcegraph, ai-commentator, flat-curve]
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# Steve Yegge

**Steve Yegge** is a veteran software engineer and prominent tech blogger with over 30 years of industry experience and 40 years of coding total. He is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, ex-Grab, and ex-Sourcegraph. As of 2026, he writes on Medium with 39K followers.

## Bio

| Station | Role | Notes |
|---------|------|-------|
| Geoworks | Early career | OS/developer tooling |
| Amazon | Senior engineer | ~2005–2012 |
| Google | Senior engineer | ~2012–2018; known for internal platform rant |
| Grab | Engineering leadership | Southeast Asia ride-hailing |
| Sourcegraph | Engineering | Code search/intelligence tooling |
| Independent (Medium) | Blogger/commentator | 39K followers, prolific long-form essays |

## Key Ideas (2026)

### The Flat Curve Society (Juni 2026)

Yegge's central 2026 thesis: **the AI intelligence curve is flattening for the general public**, not because exponential growth stops, but because:

1. **Model Lockdown** — Superintelligence will be controlled like nuclear weapons (supply chain chokepoint, 2-3 generations away)
2. **Discernment Horizon** — Humans can't verify model output past their own capability ceiling; "superhuman means unverifiable"
3. **Demand Horizon** — If your problems aren't hard enough, you can't tell models apart

**Key concepts introduced:**
- **Back-pocket evals** — personal collection of hard problems to test new models against
- **AI Literacy Cohorts** (based on Ezra Savard's Netflix study) — 0M / 4M / 12-15M tokens/day as literacy tiers
- **5-Hour Training Switch** — 5 hours of focused team training to jump from AI-illiterate to AI-savvy

See [[../concepts/llm/flat-curve-society.md]] for full concept page.

## Blog Posts in Wiki

| Blog Posts in Wiki |

## Institution-Bezug

Yegge ist ex-Amazon, ex-Google, ex-Sourcegraph. Im Wiki-Kontext relevant durch die "Flat Curve Society"-These, die direkt mit der [[../institutions/hugging-face.md|Hugging Face]]-Demokratisierungsbewegung und dem [[../institutions/openrouter.md|OpenRouter]]-Fusion-Ansatz korrespondiert.

| Date | Title | Raw Source | Wiki Page |
|------|-------|-----------|-----------|
| 2026-06-19 | The Flat Curve Society | `blog/2026-06-19_steve-yegge-flat-curve-society.md` | `concepts/llm/flat-curve-society.md` |

## External Links

- [Steve Yegge Medium Profile](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/) — 39K followers
- [The Flat Curve Society (June 2026)](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-flat-curve-society-36c8b01eb33b)
- [Steve Yegge Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) (if exists)