alt Hacker NewsInteresting choice, his prior experience doesn't seem AI related yet he's going to lead an AI strategy at Meta?
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burger_moon • today at 4:57 PM
I've run out of fingers for the amount of people in my network that are now leading/head of AI xyz at their employers yet have little to no understanding of AI beyond asking ChatGPT simple questions.
Pxtl • today at 3:48 PM
MongoDB is the textbook success of "Zero friction and slick marketing beats good engineering discipline" that is the AI froth right now.
From a technical standpoint? Very different. From a marketing standpoint when selling to software-development clients? Same space.
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bombcar • today at 3:16 PM
At least it’ll be Webscale.
Meta’s chief AI officer is a 29-30 year old who was acquihired as part of his data labelling company. He’s not a model developer.
Meta hires in strange ways. I’m convinced it’s more about your sales pitch going in.