Rauch: Product engineering will evolve into curating and prompting AI UI
Guillermo Rauch · No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch · Aug 30, 2023 · at 29:11
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch explains how generative AI will transform the daily workflow of software engineers.
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“I think I see a world where the product engineer role evolves to become that. I like this. I don't like this. Okay. Let's refine it. Let's reprompt. Okay. This looks too much like the average website. I don't want it. And of course you can sort of dive more into the code if that's, you know, what do you need to do to solve this problem?”
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