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So much code is being written that just the QA, edge cases, bug fixes, and refinements, alone will mean engineers will have plenty to do for a long time.

Our PMs have started complaining that our engineers are too productive

There are efficient organizations and then there are orgs who use zscalar.

Such a healthy way to discuss work/family tradeoffs with kids. I love this. Our kids will totally get that we might not go to the nth cheer competition or match every season if they know their parents are building a future with them as the center.

I’m as AI pilled as they come but that chart doesnt necessarily mean they are shipping faster. I bet rev/employee is more reflective of lightning fast GROWTH due to a killer product. Not that fewer engineers could make it. Both could be true. But the former is likely the stronger explanation imo.

@chamath It’s already showing in costs. See rev per FTE. through the roof.

Not a single meaningful company has yet to say that they are making at least 2x+ from all of this incremental money they are spending since even last Fall! When ROI?

Just a totally normal 5x growth in 6months AI usage chart.

Been following @DerekjAndersen for a long time. He’s interviewed some of my heroes. Really fun pod.

Someone try and tell me @RyanQualtrics isn't the greatest owner in sports. He is sparing no expense for the @utahjazz and @utahmammoth. We are lucky to have him. #TusksUp #TakeNote

we are not perfect, but we are usually kind.

T minus 24hrs for LEX Summit 2025. Utah is ready for the best pros in legaltech. Can't wait to see everybody.

"You want somethin’ bad You gotta bleed a little for it You gotta look it in the eye You gotta call it out by name" -Evan Felker, @TpTroubadours We are really excited to have you guys at Lex.

now do lawyers

@karpathy Now do lawyers.

"AI isn't replacing radiologists" good article Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing. There are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market. E.g. a ~year ago, I was asked by someone who should know better if I think there will be any software engineers still today. (Spoiler: I think we're going to make it). This is happening too broadly. The post goes into detail on why it's not that simple, using the example of radiology: - the benchmarks are nowhere near broad enough to reflect actual, real scenarios. - the job is a lot more multifaceted than just image recognition. - deployment realities: regulatory, insurance and liability, diffusion and institutional inertia. - Jevons paradox: if radiologists are sped up via AI as a tool, a lot more demand shows up. I will say that radiology was imo not among the best examples to pick on in 2016 - it's too multi-faceted, too high risk, too regulated. When looking for jobs that will change a lot due to AI on shorter time scales, I'd look in other places - jobs that look like repetition of one rote task, each task being relatively independent, closed (not requiring too much context), short (in time), forgiving (the cost of mistake is low), and of course automatable giving current (and digital) capability. Even then, I'd expect to see AI adopted as a tool at first, where jobs change and refactor (e.g. more monitoring or supervising than manual doing, etc). Maybe coming up, we'll find better and broader set of examples of how this is all playing out across the industry. About 6 months ago, I was also asked to vote if we will have less or more software engineers in 5 years. Exercise left for the reader. Full post (the whole The Works in Progress Newsletter is quite good): worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-…

so we all agree FDEs are not COGs. cause they really seem like cogs

dream partners @RyanQualtrics @haloxco @ryanjsweeney All out sprint--for another 10+ years

News: legal tech startup Filevine has raised $400M at a $3B valuation. The Utah startup expects to end the year at $200M ARR and wasn't looking to raise, its CEO tells Upstarts. Then a surprise investor called: Jazz owner and Qualtrics billionaire Ryan Smith (@RyanQualtrics).

@thogge @bryce @filevine Thanks @thogge !

@bryce @RyanM_Anderson @filevine Amazing.

Filevine is a quintessential Utah story- quietly building a monster business for a decade plus. One of the most compelling stories of traditional SaaS making the transition to AI and massively sticking the landing. Huge congrats to @RyanM_Anderson and the entire @filevine team

@tbpn This was more fun than I want to admit. Thanks @jordihays and @johncoogan.

Filevine CEO @RyanM_Anderson on AI in legal work: “100,000 legal professionals log into Filevine daily, with the average customer using it 100 times a day. We’ve now layered AI into almost every single thing they do.”