Ferrari: AI widens talent divides by multiplying high-performer productivity
Luca Ferrari · $2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari · Sep 20, 2024 · at 54:41
Luca Ferrari, CEO of Bending Spoons, discusses the impact of AI tools on talent density and software engineering productivity gaps.
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“AI makes capable people more capable. I, unfortunately, perhaps It increases all sorts of divides, bearing governments spreading, you know, opportunity and wealth. But in the wild, it increases divides. It makes a great engineer better by 10 times. And the mediocre one who was already one-tenth the ability, if the mediocre one produced one and the better one 10, now the 10 becomes hundred, the one 10, now the difference is not nine, it's 90.”
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