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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 |
| 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:
- Model Lockdown — Superintelligence will be controlled like nuclear weapons (supply chain chokepoint, 2-3 generations away)
- Discernment Horizon — Humans can't verify model output past their own capability ceiling; "superhuman means unverifiable"
- 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-Demokratisierungsbewegung und dem ../institutions/openrouter.md-Fusion-Ansatz korrespondiert.
| Date | Title | Raw Source | Wiki Page |
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| 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 — 39K followers
- The Flat Curve Society (June 2026)
- Steve Yegge Wikipedia (if exists)