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McGrew: AI impact is not visible in productivity statistics
“I mean, yes, AI has had some effects, you know, particularly on people who write code, but, you know, I don't think you can see it in the productivity statistics, unless it's about how big the data centers are that we're building.”
Bob McGrew Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 20:50 Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
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McGrew: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar invented the FDE strategy
“And I think this is where Shamsankar, who's very early employee, you know, now that I think the president and CTO of Palantir, he really invented the FDE strategy.”
Bob McGrew Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 5:41 The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
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McGrew: OpenAI authored early robotics paper as 'OpenAI' to avoid credit disputes
“And one of the early robotics papers, we actually said site as open AI because we didn't want to get into a fight. You know, the first author is the one who, you know, gets cited and their name shows up every single time. So we said, you know, we're not going …”
Bob McGrew Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 7:53 Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
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McGrew: Palantir's FDE model relied on Echo analysts and Delta engineers
“The two key roles are those of what we call the echo team and the Delta team. The echo team were Embedded analysts. So they would go to the customer site. They would speak to the users. They would try to figure out what demo or what use case really made sense …”
Bob McGrew Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 9:57 The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
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