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“AI utilization” is becoming commonplace in the engineering community. In such an era, I’ve been thinking about what kind of engineer we should aspire to be. On one hand, there’s the “Brilliant Shark” type engineer—those with overwhelming technical skills but who neglect teamwork. On the other hand, there are engineers with decent technical skills who excel at AI utilization and serve as team facilitators. Through extensive use of Claude Code, I’ve come to see that the latter has a brighter future ahead. Let me share my thoughts on “the future engineer archetype” based on my experience with AI tools. ...

About MarkItDown On December 14, 2024, Microsoft released something interesting. It’s a software called MarkItDown. It’s a tool that converts various files into the Markdown format. Quoting from the official repository, the formats that can be converted are: - PDF (.pdf) - PowerPoint (.pptx) - Word (.docx) - Excel (.xlsx) - Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR) - Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription) - HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.) - Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.) - ZIP (Iterates over contents and converts each file) As you can see, it handles a wide variety of files. ...