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Schillace: AI tooling will expand engineering ambitions rather than shrink team sizes
“Programmers are definitely going to get more effective. We're going to get more agentic programming tools. So you're going to get higher and higher leverage, but I don't think it's going to make the team smaller. I think it's just going to make the ambitions b…”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 31:00 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: AI will make creating pixels free, radically altering software applications
“I have the suspicion that the nature of applications is going to change radically in the next five to 10 years. And so I think, you know, this idea that just in the same way that the internet made the distribution of information essentially free, AI, generativ…”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 31:52 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Durable AI value will accrue to trusted personal data holders
“So that's kind of where that durable value will wind up being, I think, over time. It's kind of the holders of the data and the companies that we can trust to, you know, hold that data and trust to give us the right answers are probably where their value is.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 35:30 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
Assertion Supported
Schillace: Physicians paired with AI diagnostic tools perform worse than AI alone
“There's a study I saw a while ago that compared like an AI based system, AI only physician only and AI plus physician An AI plus physician did worse than AI only. The physician kind of dragged the AI down because they didn't trust it.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 1:02:16 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Google Workspace and Microsoft Office are reaching market stasis
“And I think it's hard for either one company to fully become what the other one is and take, take the whole market. So I think we're getting close to stasis on this actually.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 24:29 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Over one billion people use Google Docs today
“There's like more than a billion people use gdocs today.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 5:19 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Microsoft cloud tools must preserve desktop compatibility, unlike Google Docs
“They're trying to keep the cloud very strongly competitive roundtrip, or very strongly compatible, you know, roundtrip compatible with the desktop. That's a design point Google does not care about, but Microsoft does care about.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 24:12 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Google spends billions annually on Google Maps
“Google spends billions of dollars a year on maps.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 26:46 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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Schillace: Writely ran on only three servers before Google acquisition
“We had none of the backend support that you have now in the cloud. Like we literally had three servers in Texas. And so scaling was starting to get to be a problem when we went to Google.”
Sam Schillace Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 17:18 Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
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