engineering
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2024 by David Hsu · across every show →
Everything said about engineering, oldest first
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Jan 1, 2025 positive
Swyx: AI field will invert from research-heavy to engineering-heavy
“I think the AI world, the ML world is still very much research heavy. And that's as it should be because ML is very much in a research phase. But as we move this entire field into production, I think that ratio inverts into becoming more engineering heavy.”
Feb 11, 2025 negative
Bret Taylor: Order-taking engineering teams rarely build breakthrough products
“Few great things have been created by committee, you know? And so if engineering is an order taking organization for product you can sometimes make meaningful things, but rarely will you create extremely well-crafted breakthrough products. Those tend to be sma…”
Jan 17, 2026 positive
Jan 28, 2026
White: Engineering Can Run Autonomously, but Science Requires Human Interpretation
“Engineering can exist by itself. Like if you give some kind of system, a goal of like making me a material that I can make a space elevator out of, you could be not participating in the beginning, the process of the middle, the process, and you just come by th…”