Aaron Levie: prediction

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…Yeah. Um, but, uh, but yeah, so it’s, uh, I, I think we’re all, you know, the thing that’s gonna happen on the ledger of software is we’re gonna produce far more output of code and thus features per dollar. But on the other end of this, we’re gonna actually end up spending probably just as much on how do you get all of that stuff to the customer, and it’s gonna create a new set of roles that we are all doing, partly because I, either, because there’s so much choice and now you have to kind of fight for attention there, or because this stuff is, is just changing so quickly that you have to technically help your customers. Along the journey. Yeah, so, so I just think like, I, this is why I, I, I always laugh when, you know, people say you don’t need to be an engineer, don’t do computer science. I actually think like that is like still one of the most protected job categories because things are only getting more technical. Things are only gonna get harder and anybody in a technical position is in the best position. Yeah. To get agents deployed, get them built, get them adopted, build the, the, the custom code software to the, for the IT system, all of that. So, yeah. Yeah. My, my classic founding story of like why I picked AI engineer as a title and as, as a, as a theme for this podcast as theme for my conference was, um, back in like early 2023, someone al came to me and said like, I’m all in on ai. What should I do? And I was like, I just looked at her. I was like,…

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