engineer
also referred to as: engineers
8 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2023 by Daphne Koller · across every show →
Everything said about engineer, oldest first
May 19, 2023 neutral
Koller: Engineers look for patterns; scientists look for outliers
“When you show an engineer or computer scientist a bunch of dots
Usually the natural inclination is to try and find the pattern, the thing that explains as many of the points as you can, because that is the thing around which you will engineer your system.
If y…”
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Palantir used LLMs to cut a two-month UI feature to two hours
“It's like one of the consequences of a hack we had a number of months ago was that I had an engineer who could build a feature in a couple hours that we had previously scoped. It was on the roadmap. It was a feature that was going to take like two months and t…”
Jul 11, 2024 bullish
Field: Engineers will spend more time on design than coding tasks
“Probably before you see potential replacement of any part of the design role, you instead see augmentation and you see access. You see efficiency so that designers can get more done. And I think probably a lot of engineers do more of their, put more of their t…”
Dec 6, 2024 bullish
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Ng: Early career mistake was attempting to train engineers into product managers
“One of my failures, one of the things I did not do well in the early phase of my career for some dumb reason, I tried to make a bunch of engineers product managers. I gave them product manager training, and I found that I just foolishly made a bunch of really …”
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Zhang: Aspiring founders learn more at post-PMF startups than pre-PMF companies
“Generally, when I talk to engineers that want to join startups, for example, and let's say they eventually want to start their own company, which is a very common profile, it's, in my opinion, it's like way more useful to join somewhere where they've already k…”
Aug 6, 2026 positive
Gil: Displaced Big Tech engineers will be absorbed by traditional enterprises
“So even if there is some displacement of engineers at some point in the future, I don't know when that is or if it happens, but if it does happen, there's lots and lots of homes for them. Because there's tons of enterprises that never had the capability set or…”