Chance Kelch
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Chance Kelch
@ChanceKelch
Used to work in tech. Still do, but used to, too. Building reliable AI systems. Prev Stripe, VP @StockX, 10yrs @Amazon.

One corollary to the fact that AI agents take real work to setup in company at scale, is that the role of the forward deployed engineer -or whatever it gets called in the future- isn’t going away any time soon. When a vendor sells any kind of agents into an organization, you’re no longer just selling a software tool that gets implemented and you’re done. You’re fundamentally selling some form of the actual workflow being done by your technology. This is far closer to a customer buying from a professional services firm than implementing traditional technology. This will almost always require a deep understanding of the domain that the customer operates in, the ability to help a customer wire up their systems to support the agents, make sure all the context is setup in the right way, and help provide change management to actually get the company to adapt its business processes. The ability to do this across customers, figure out best practices in a specific industry and customer segment, take new features back to go build in the product, and so on is going to be key. There’s no shortcut to getting this work done by the enterprise, and the vendors are going to have to do a lot of this or risk low adoption. Finally, this is a big opportunity for existing and next gen professional services companies. There are all new practice areas emerging in every system integrator and consulting firm just to do this kind of work, and this is going to continue to be in demand for quite some time. Yet another example of jobs that aren’t actually going away.

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Watching my friends spend $1500 and 30 hours of their time setting up an AI chatbot that summarizes the weather:







McGovern: The only Trump Derangement Syndrome going on around here is on the other side of the aisle. They are saying that Biden orchestrated the conviction of his own son in order to justify the criminal charges against Trump. That is how you think when you are in a cult



