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Just use Flutter - Stephan Schmidt // Amazing CTO

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The CTO says he would fight “tooth and nail” against a bad Rust decision.

1. The CTO Podcast episode centers on a news roundup and a long technical discussion about Flutter, Rust, ChatGPT Enterprise, local AI, and CTO decision-making. 2. The host and Stefan Schmidt are the named participants, with Stefan curating an “amazing newsletter” and the host saying he founded Seven CTOs. 3. The episode asks what CTOs should pay attention to right now: remote work, AI tooling, low-code platforms, and programming-language choices. 4. The first story covers Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s remote-work policy, which limits remote work to two days per week and affects more than 2 million Amazon employees. 5. The speakers react to Jassy’s “judgment call” framing and to the line that employees who do not want three days in the office are free to leave. 6. The second story covers OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, described as a business tool with unlimited access, faster speeds, longer context windows, encryption, security, privacy, and group account management. 7. The speakers connect ChatGPT Enterprise to a future where emails, decisions, and even layoff workflows may be routed through the model. 8. A Pew Research study is cited showing that 56% expect major impact on software engineers, 54% on graphic designers, 52% on journalists, 44% on teachers, and 31% on lawyers. 9. The same Pew numbers are contrasted with the claim that 90% of employees and adults who have heard of ChatGPT expect a major impact on their own jobs. 10. AWS Honeycode is described as a low-code platform that will be discontinued on February 29, 2024, and the speaker treats that as a sign that traditional low-code tools may be fading. 11. The Flutter segment becomes a major argument for startups that need a cross-platform tool when budget and runway are constrained. 12. The speaker says Flutter is his “go-to,” likes Dart because it is not JavaScript, and values its strong typing and C-style syntax. 13. He also says Flutter apps are beautiful, the widgets are coded directly, and the framework appears to take over the screen and render inside it. 14. The Rust segment highlights the 2022 annual Rust survey, where 30% of people who gave up on Rust said it is too difficult. 15. The speakers also point out that the top reason to use Rust at work is performance, followed by bug-free software and enjoying hard problems. 16. The CTO discussion turns into governance advice: the CTO represents both business and tech, and can challenge choices like early Kafka or early Kubernetes adoption. 17. The tone shifts between news commentary, technical opinion, and back-and-forth debate rather than a formal interview with a single thread. 18. The pace is conversational and opinionated, with repeated examples from email, layoffs, message queues, and local AI experiments. 19. Listeners who follow CTO strategy, AI tooling, and mobile stack choices will get the most value. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly edited, purely technical deep dive may skip the broader news-and-commentary format.

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