Masood: Open source projects are among the most efficiently run software projects
Iba Masood · 1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning · Sep 23, 2018 · at 4:50
Iba Masood explains the founding thesis behind training Tara Intelligence's software scoping models on open source repositories.
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“We, as a company, we have this hypothesis that open source projects are one of the most efficiently run projects as a whole, because Typically when people are pursuing side projects, they have a timeline and they need to get things done quickly, but they like to also pursue shortcuts shortcuts that are actually efficient in nature that can use some level of open source code to get to get to where you need to be.”
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