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Defining correctness in AI outputs is becoming increasingly subjective
“As we, I think, trend towards artificial general intelligence, the definition of correct or the definition of whether something is, you know, valid or not, It's becoming increasingly subjective”
Much of AI companies' value now lies in prompt engineering
“And I think a lot of the value for AI companies now, you know, is in prompt engineering. I think the early days was actually just Can you build a model? Can you get the model running? Can you get the model working in production? Where I think a lot of it is, c…”
Fast AI evolution requires hiring for learning slope over specific domain experience
“Making sure that the slope is there is really critical as someone who's really smart, just because the AI field is changing and particularly this year, every week, it's rapidly changing. And so you're going to need someone who you can't rely on their prior exp…”
A startup's current AI model may be surpassed within three to twelve months
“And so I think for any startup, given the advancements in the LLM field, the current model you're using might be the right model today, but three months from now, 12 months from now, there's a good chance that another model might actually surpass the current m…”
AI product development strictly requires an AI engineer from day one
“The uniqueness that we found for product development specific with AI is that You know, we define product best in class product development as a product manager and a minimum designer starting from the very beginning of ideation and building a product spec and…”
AI product teams must present concrete options rather than asking what to build
“You know, I think with working with customers with AI, you also have to develop world-class techniques of not asking the customer what to build, but instead giving them a set of options to provide feedback on.”
AI engineers must be embedded directly in product squads, not isolated
“And so having, AI engineers embedded with traditional engineers has been the big breakthrough for us and working together To develop and build these features and not seeing AI as, like Kevin said, an input output, you know, the model spits out a response that …”
AI startups lacking workflow or data ownership face imminent disruption
“If you are, you know, a founder or someone working on AI, you really need to think about if you're not owning that core workflow, if you're not owning the data yourself, then it's very easy to be disrupted and someone else could easily, you know, and most like…”