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Shah: Under-engineering is preferable because tech debt interest is quantifiable
“I would rather under-engineer something than over-engineer it if I were gonna err on the side of something. And here's the reason is that when you under-engineer it yes, you take on tech debt but the interest rate is relatively known and payoff is very, very p…”
Shah: Zero-cost AI feature generation risks creating bloated, complicated software
“One of the risks that we have is that because adding a feature like a save or whatever the feature might be to a product, as that price tends towards zero, are we going to be less discriminated about what features we add as a result of making more product Prod…”
Shah: Deterministic steps beat LLM randomness when workflow steps are known
“Thing number two is if you can get, if you know in your head what the actual steps are to accomplish whatever goal, why would you leave that to chance? There's no upside. There's literally no upside. Just tell me like, what steps do you need executed?”
Shah: Traditional software UIs are unintuitive compared to natural language
“As software developers, myself included, we've always said, oh, we build intuitive, easy to use applications. And it's not intuitive at all, right? Because what we're doing is taking the mental model that's in our head of what we're trying to accomplish with s…”
Shah: AI's next leap is autonomous multi-step action, not chat
“If we want to do something even more meaningful, it felt like the next kind of advancement is not this kind of, I'm chatting with some software in a kind of a synchronous back and forth model is that software is going to do things for me. In kind of multi-step…”
Shah: Early frameworks like AutoGPT assumed model reasoning that didn't exist
“So if you look at the first Implementation of like agent frameworks. You look at you know, baby AJI and auto GBT. I think it was an auto gen. That's the Microsoft one. They were way ahead of their time because they assumed this level of reasoning and execution…”
Shah: Graph Representations Offer Observability That Vector Embeddings Lack
“They're much more discoverable. You can kind of see it. There's observability to it versus kind of embeddings, which you can't really do much with as a human. You know, once they're in there, you can't pull stuff back out”
Shah: Systems thinking and abstractions retain timeless engineering value
“I think there's going to be timeless value in systems thinking and abstractions and what that means and whether functions manifested as math, which he's going to get exposed to regardless, or there are some core primitives to the universe. I think that the mor…”
Shah: Owning premium domains grants access to competitive startup investment deals
“I owned playground.com... Suhail was out there with Playground the company... And he asked me whether I would consider... But once again, I took took equity. So it's like, I got the bright side. That's like, I, so domains that get me into deals that I would ne…”
Shah: Conviction belongs on persistent problems, not specific products or solutions
“I don't generally tend to have conviction around a solution or a product. I have conviction around a problem that says this is an actual real problem. That needs to be solved. And I may have an idea for how to be solved you know, right now and that I may be ge…”