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@miraculixxs
March 18, 2025 at 3:37 pm
I don’t believe a single thing she says (I am an AI engineer). She invests in hype, not value.
@1vbAPiYk
March 18, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Obviously. But the tech will get there finally.
@vrclckd-zz3pv
March 18, 2025 at 3:44 pm
I’m an SDE at Amazon. I’ve signed NDAs so I can’t give details, but we’ve started doing some of the things she mentioned internally on our team.
We’re working on scrapping the front end of our main tool and replacing it with an LLM which calls the APIs of the legacy web interface. Our users say they’re more productive with the LLM vs manually using the tool with a traditional interface.
@miraculixxs
March 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm
@@vrclckd-zz3pv No doubt you do that. How do you handle reliability? You will have >1% failures. That will quickly become a problem when you scale to 1000s of users.
@DeepValue47
March 18, 2025 at 4:07 pm
Honest question.. Is she regarded ???
All she did was gas up her portfolio.
Palantir puts them to bed with their eyes closed. 🤣🤣
Sorry Grace, next time.
@jivey1
March 18, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Why don’t they interview actual engineers?
@witness1013
March 18, 2025 at 4:36 pm
Agents are lame. Fact.