James Brady
6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2024 by James Brady · across every show →
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Jun 21, 2024 positive
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Brady: Elicit uses checked exceptions in Python to handle edge cases
“We use checked exceptions inside our Python code base, which means that we can use the type system to make sure we are handling, properly handling, all of the various things that could be going wrong, all the different exceptions that could be getting raised. …”
Jun 21, 2024
Jun 21, 2024 negative
Brady: Elicit structures interviews as real work simulations, rejecting arbitrary questions
“I really have a strong dislike and distaste for interview questions, which are arbitrary and kind of strip away all the context from what it really is to do the work. We try to make the interview process that's illicit A simulation of working together.”
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Brady: ML apps require distributed systems engineering skills from day one
“The kind of person that is deep in the guts of some kind of distributed systems, really high, high scale backend kind of a problem would probably naturally have these kinds of skills, but you'll find them on, on day one if you're building a, you know, an ML po…”
Jun 21, 2024 neutral
Brady: Fault-tolerant engineering discipline and ML curiosity are in natural tension
“I think the fault first mindset and the ML curiosity attitude could be somewhat in tension, right? Because for example, the stereotypical, stereotypical version of someone that is great at building fault tolerant systems has probably been doing it for a decade…”