Biewald: Closed-Source Telemetry Gives W&B A Massive UX Advantage
Lukas Biewald · No Priors Ep. 26 | With Weights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald · Aug 3, 2023 · at 35:58
Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights & Biases, discusses why keeping the core platform closed source improved user experience compared to open-source competitors.
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“There's been a major pro, which is that all our competitors are open source. And what that means is that they don't get to see how users actually use their software. And so I think our software is a lot more ergonomic because we have like metrics on what people actually click on.”
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