AI tools

“I encourage people to just take an online course, understand more, get your hands dirty, pair up with someone else that's in the same boat as you, because this is going to give you the skillset to understand how that tool that's going to help you in your day-t…”

“We know that something like 92% of developers are already using AI tools.”

“The only AI tool that I've found helpful so far is Opus clip, which takes all of the incredible amount of YouTube content we have force ranks it and turns it into 59 second clips.”

“Don't say it doesn't work. Just explain exactly what you're expecting and which parts are working and which parts are not working. And that's a lot of, that's something that a lot of people don't do naturally.”

“And so it becomes much more cost effective for American companies to hire people in the U.S. And I think the people in the U.S. Are going to be better in a, in, in a lot of cases at using these AI tools to do work. So I think it may actually make it more effec…”

“And in fact, I think these days, you know, ChatGPT or these other AI tools are better teachers.”

“Turns out agents rely on good data, right? Because it's all about how they've been trained or how they've been grounded and better data gives you better outcomes, and some of that data includes documentation and comments. And the better documentation, the bett…”

“I still think that things that we interviewed for in the past, a critical mindset, the ability to really understand deeply the technical nature of a problem. Is still much more important than whether you're a fully AI native programmer.”

“And the thing about AI tools is they're all pulling from the same databases. So I'm like, I want to email someone not in the database that's getting hit by a million folks.”

“If you're starting a new company today, and you have, like, a really good understanding and, like, network of customers that are currently underserved by AI tools, I think you're, like, you're set. Whereas if you're, like, good at building, like, you know, web…”

“If I was a betting man, as they say, I'd bet that the next class that wins are designers, because We're training these tools to be more clear, to be better, to make better technical decisions. I don't think we will train them just yet to be, make better emoti…”

“So I think that's the advantage that we have over people that are technical. We just come into this completely unbiased and very positively delusional, which I think you have to have when working with AI tools, you have to come with this delusion that absolute…”

“Both engineers and PMs, 70% of people said they are enjoying their job more. And about 10% said they're enjoying their job less. Designers, interestingly, Only 55% said they're enjoying their job more, and 20% said they're enjoying their job less.”

“Various tools that are available to us these days enable you to bring out those sides of your personality and those professional aspirations. And that's something that people are really enjoying. We're sort of escaping our classic swim lanes and a certain perc…”

“And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools, because that's gonna be part of what the work requires now.”

“I think the people that we see who are most effective at using AI tools don't simply use it to automate rote tasks, but use it to expand the set of things that they are capable of doing.”