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
Insight
Hsu: Best AI adoption is engineering-driven, not operations-driven
“I think the companies that adopt AI the best, it is going to be engineering driven, I think, rather than, like, operations driven or anything else.”
David Hsu Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 40:45 The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Jan 1, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Shawn Wang Jan 1, 2025 ▶ 3:26 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
Feb 11, 2025 negative
Insight
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…”
Bret Taylor Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 15:34 The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Jan 17, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brex forced all existing engineers to pass its new AI interview
“As soon as we had the interview ready to ship, we started, we said everybody in engineering, including all the managers are going to have to go through this interview. And so we re-interviewed everybody internally.”
James Reggio Jan 17, 2026 ▶ 1:02:29 Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
Jan 28, 2026
Insight
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…”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 56:51 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
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