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Ben Scharfstein predicts AI agents will drive software writing costs to zero
“One of the things that we really believe is the cost of writing software is going to zero in that world.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 8:53 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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Ben Scharfstein predicts AI agents will replace systems integrators within a decade
“It's hard for me to think that in 10 years, there's going to be a super robust systems integrator ecosystem. Probably agents will just do it.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 29:40 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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Scale AI employs over 100,000 global contributors for AI data tasks
“We have contributors, you know, a 100,000 plus contributors around the world That do these tasks.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 14:14 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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Scharfstein: In-house forward-deployed engineering teams have a 5-to-10-year lifespan
“I think that this idea of having this forward deployed in house, it has a five to 10 year life because we just have so much software left to build.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 29:15 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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Scharfstein: Scale AI's enterprise business found PMF in past 12-18 months
“There's been an enterprise team at scale for a long time, but really just in the past 12 to 18 months has really taken off as something that's found kind of product market fit.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 1:18 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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