Fantastic lecture at Stanford University on what it's like to work in AI right now. Advice from Andrew Ng (deep learning.ai) and guest lecturer Laurence Moroney (Microsoft, Google, Arm) with golden, actionable, advice for what it's like to work in AI right now!
We might think it wrong to name and shame, but this is one explicit case where it's the right thing. The autocratic style, the sheer bullying, and the lack of promotion from within have run what was one of the best developer (and developer relations) groups in the world into the ground.
They talk AI - AI - AI but do they walk the walk?
Firebase? Remember when it was the best developer tool there was? Missed the boat with Vector DBs for AI, and when experts within the company raised that it was necessary.
Flutter? Yeah -- didn't they get a community member or an intern to put out a plugin for TensorFlow lite for mobile AI, and when they moved on, nobody cared.
Dart and Go? Don't make me laugh.
TensorFlow and Open Source AI (also under JB) -- Didn't give a crap, zero investment, lots of cuts, and did nothing about advancing TF since, what 2020? When was version 2? What happened to version 3? Literally invigorated the world with AI, and then JB came along and what...?
In the last 6 months? Spun up internal incubators to build new AI products. Trying to replicate Pinecone with less than 5 internal folks who don't have a background in AI at all etc. (Pinecone have ~200 people?)
Trying to build prompt management tools, when there are a million GPT ones out there? Check. I guess she never heard of OSS?
Oh yeah, wait the OSS office @ Google is also under JB.
