McCarthy: AI point solutions will quickly become commoditized by coding tools
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Sean McCarthy is the founder of BackOps AI, discussing enterprise AI software architecture with host Pablo Srugo.
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“All of these point solutions will become a commoditized layer here very quickly. And you have to think the simple ones are going to be able to be solved with things like cloud code.”
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