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This talk is deceptively simple. The most sage advice that founders routinely forget is what concrete idea are you going to implement and why do you think it will work? There has be a way to invalidate your idea and as a corollary you must have the focus to collect the data and properly invalidate it.
I’m 20 minutes into the video and it does seem mostly basic and agreeable. Two arguments from Ng that really stuck out that is really tripping my skepticism alarm are: 1) He mentions how fast prototyping has begun because generating a simple app has become easier with AI. This, to me, has always been quick and never the bottleneck for any company I’ve been at, including startups. Validating an idea was simple enough…
I’m 20 minutes into the video and it does seem mostly basic and agreeable. Two arguments from Ng that really stuck out that is really tripping my skepticism alarm are: 1) He mentions how fast prototyping has begun because generating a simple app has become easier with AI. This, to me, has always been quick and never the bottleneck for any company I’ve been at, including startups. Validating an idea was simple enough…
At my company everybody codes, including PMs and business people. It can definitely be damaging done in the long run without any supervision from an actual programmer. This is why we assign an engineer to review every PR of a vibe coded project and they don’t really need all of the context to detect bs approaches that will surely fail. About prototyping - its much faster and i dont know how anyone can argue this. PMs…
I see this trend in many companies as well, just curious, how do you make sure engineering time is not wasted reviewing so many PRs? Because, some of them will be good, you only need couple of your bets to take off, some definitely bad
I’m 20 minutes into the video and it does seem mostly basic and agreeable. Two arguments from Ng that really stuck out that is really tripping my skepticism alarm are: 1) He mentions how fast prototyping has begun because generating a simple app has become easier with AI. This, to me, has always been quick and never the bottleneck for any company I’ve been at, including startups. Validating an idea was simple enough…
At my company everybody codes, including PMs and business people. It can definitely be damaging done in the long run without any supervision from an actual programmer. This is why we assign an engineer to review every PR of a vibe coded project and they don’t really need all of the context to detect bs approaches that will surely fail. About prototyping - its much faster and i dont know how anyone can argue this. PMs…
What happens when inevitably the PR/code is horrid? Do they just keep prompting and pushing out slop that some poor overworked dev is now forced to sit through lest he get PIP'd for not being brainwashed by LLMs yet?
I’m 20 minutes into the video and it does seem mostly basic and agreeable. Two arguments from Ng that really stuck out that is really tripping my skepticism alarm are: 1) He mentions how fast prototyping has begun because generating a simple app has become easier with AI. This, to me, has always been quick and never the bottleneck for any company I’ve been at, including startups. Validating an idea was simple enough…
If you've worked long enough and had interacted with people with varied skillsets, people who don't code aren't only there for show, in fact, depending on the type of company you work at, their jobs might be genuinely more important for the company's success than yours.
I would love to have access to whatever this guy is smoking, cause that is some grade-A mind rotted insanity right there. I can count on half of 1 hand the number of good PMs I've had trough my career who weren't a net negative on the projects/companies, and even they most definitely cannot build jackshit by throwing a bunch of LLM-hallucinated crap at the wall and seeing what sticks.
But sure, the devs are the ones that are going to be replaced by the clueless middle managers who only exist to waste everyone's time.
> 1 product manager to 0.5 engineers I would love to have access to whatever this guy is smoking, cause that is some grade-A mind rotted insanity right there. I can count on half of 1 hand the number of good PMs I've had trough my career who weren't a net negative on the projects/companies, and even they most definitely cannot build jackshit by throwing a bunch of LLM-hallucinated crap at the wall and seeing what sti…
In the end, what if technically sharp designers and well rounded developers actually end up pushing out incompetent managers?
Could be wishful thinking but you never know.
> 1 product manager to 0.5 engineers I would love to have access to whatever this guy is smoking, cause that is some grade-A mind rotted insanity right there. I can count on half of 1 hand the number of good PMs I've had trough my career who weren't a net negative on the projects/companies, and even they most definitely cannot build jackshit by throwing a bunch of LLM-hallucinated crap at the wall and seeing what sti…
not a single word about overwhelming replacement of humans with AI. nothing about countless jobs lost. nothing about ever increasing competition and rat-race. (speaking of software, but applies to all industries). his rose-glasses view is somewhere in between optimism-in-denial to straight-up lunacy. if this is the leader(s) we have been following, this should be a wake up call.
> 1 product manager to 0.5 engineers I would love to have access to whatever this guy is smoking, cause that is some grade-A mind rotted insanity right there. I can count on half of 1 hand the number of good PMs I've had trough my career who weren't a net negative on the projects/companies, and even they most definitely cannot build jackshit by throwing a bunch of LLM-hallucinated crap at the wall and seeing what sti…
Or is it the other way around? Project managers who can't actually competently execute won't be able to hang? In the end, what if technically sharp designers and well rounded developers actually end up pushing out incompetent managers? Could be wishful thinking but you never know.
(the comments are especially revealing)