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Grinberg: Coding speed and syntax memorization no longer matter for engineers
“And the parts of engineering that become less important are funny enough, the things that the Silicon Valley has really bragged about a lot, which is like, Competition winning or like Olympiad type. Are you like as fast as possible at coding? Are you, do you m…”
Grinberg: Usage of frontier AI models may contract in the short term
“We might see a short-term contraction of usage of the very frontier models.”
Grinberg: Kirkland's $500M AI push will ultimately benefit legal AI vendors
“Now, I actually think this is good for Harvey because it's nothing like trying to do something yourself to make you realize, oh, shit, this is actually really difficult. This doesn't actually matter for us to have the in-house ability to build this ourselves. …”
Grinberg: AI frontier models will remain roughly equivalent to each other
“The bare case against factory is if one model provider gets significantly better than all of the others. So basically I think a key thing for us is that all the models are going to be roughly as good as each other.”
Grinberg: Enterprises will realize frontier AI models are unnecessary for most tasks
“A lot of enterprises will realize so many of the tasks that we're doing, we don't need the very frontier to do it. Like, and we can do it much faster, much cheaper with these open models.”
Grinberg: Individual AI token spend will range from 0% to tens of thousands % of salary
“I actually think it can be as low as zero percent for some individuals, and it can be as high as like 1010 of thousands of percent for some individuals.”
Grinberg: Median developer AI token spend will match salary within three years
“I would say order of magnitude will probably be comparable to salary.”
Grinberg: AI startups ignoring sales will fail when market gravity returns
“I think that the reality is it will come to haunt some of these companies one day, because I think right now where there's a gold rush and everyone's like desperate to sign, you know, and get more tokens from these people, it's easy. They're kind of like, in m…”
Grinberg: Software engineers will build automated factories rather than write code
“The future of software development is where these organizations, instead of having engineers, That build the software. They're going to have engineers that build the factories that build their software.”
Grinberg: AI infrastructure is not in a long-term bubble
“Maybe there's like some short term blips, but like long term, absolutely not. Like not even close. I think there might be similar corrections to like this thing at Uber, Where, oh, we were going a little haywire. We weren't allocating it appropriately. And the…”
Grinberg: Major security incidents from AI code will hit within two years
“I think there are probably going to be in the next couple years some pretty big incidents that occur because of,”
Grinberg predicts at least four AI companies will achieve frontier model parity
“There was a brief period of time where I thought it might be just one or two companies that run away with being kind of the frontier and the best. What seems pretty clear to me is it's probably going to be at least four that are going to probably be approximat…”
Grinberg: Future AI tools will enable anyone to build anything
“The world going forward, there is going to be nothing that no one can build.”
Grinberg: Top AI-era engineers will embrace sales and marketing
“The best engineers are going to be the ones that don't see sales and marketing as dirty work, but as again, an important part of the product, because as an engineer, you're no longer, you know, just your job is ship feature.”
Matan Grinberg: AI Labor Displacement Is Short-Term; Long-Term Reallocation Is Net Positive
“Short term, yes. Long term, no. Short term, yes, because it's just a shock to the system where, you know, there are all these big layoffs that are happening that are pretty aggressive, and, you know, these are 1010 of thousands of people that had a job that no…”
Grinberg: Dementia will eventually be solved using AI and software
“Dementia is kind of a go-to example where everyone understands how big of a deal that is. That is something that can be solved with better AI and better software. Like it's a matter of time. Like we will solve it and we can solve it.”
Grinberg: Enterprise AI Coding Governance Will Be Controlled by Engineers, Not Non-Technical Staff
“I think it would be ill-advised if they were to try and go to the niche of non-technical people writing code for code sake, because I think that is going to be run by, like, if you're going to need enterprise controls over who has access to what databases and …”
Grinberg: Top companies will manage teams like Seal Team Six
“We will see the best companies treat teams more and more like seal team six or like professional athletes.”
Grinberg: Token, dollar, and headcount allocation will dominate C-suites within 24 months
“This resource allocation problem of token, it's not just tokens, it's like dollars, it's tokens, it's people. This is, I think, going to be the thing that over the next 24 months, every C-suite is going to be thinking about.”
Grinberg: Discrete AI model releases will be replaced by continuous updates
“I think eventually we'll stop seeing them as model releases, and they'll feel more continuous.”
Grinberg: Software engineers will increasingly transition into full business outcome GM roles
“I think, so it's starting to exist more and more, but I think it's kind of this like GM or general manager Like role for someone who used to be an engineer, where basically you own end to end an outcome that is not just a shipped feature, but like a business o…”
Grinberg: Engineers won't manually write documentation or release notes in five years
“Five years from now, it's going to be like, oh my God, I cannot imagine, cannot believe that these people that get paid so much money spent hours of their time doing this. I think that's something that, you know, we definitely won't do.”
Grinberg: US states permitting data centers will prosper economically
“There won't be as many jobs that get created there. Whereas the states that do allow for data centers to be good, to be created, you know, people will prosper. They're gonna have great jobs. They'll, you know, see the downstream benefits of it.”