Bret Taylor: belief

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…It absolutely does. But isn't this organizationally hard where, if I'm the head of Cantonese language at Sierra, my incentive, and not disingenuously so, I'll notice all the corner cases where the models aren't that good at Cantonese yet. Obviously, we saw this in prior tech waves, where the cloud adoption laggards were companies that had their own on-prem stuff, and they had a million reasons—half real, half fake—as to why cloud did not suit their business purposes. But how do you avoid getting stuck in this mode of thinking where, "Oh, well, their chain of thought doesn't do what we need," is the classic thing you would hear from someone within the organization. It's a huge shift. Going back to the first thing we were talking about, it's hard for me to not care about the elegance of the source code, which I think is an impediment to my fully realizing being a software engineer in this new world. I think teams that start to treat the code that they wrote as precious, that has been obviated by a general-purpose AI model, will fundamentally fall behind. Public markets deem the software industry 20-30% less valuable than they did maybe three months back.…

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