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A Seeker In Tech 🧘‍♂️ | Building AI/Data Apps |
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[malhar @MalharDotTech]

We gave AI to a generation that never learned to question.

Now we fail faster. At scale. With confidence.

I've done it.

Built pipelines nobody needed.
Automated decisions nobody validated.
Shipped dashboards into the void.
Technically flawless. Strategically brain-dead.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Profound wisdom often needs few words.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon

"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"

"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"

"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"

"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"

"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"

[Naval @naval]

Co-founder is marriage without the sex.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Knowledge grows when you ask stupid questions. Stupidity grows when you don't ask anything.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

#Life #SadhguruWisdom

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Silence is a weapon.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

How does Ilya have such good research taste?

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

You don’t find your purpose. You build it, brick by brick, mistake by mistake.

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

#Footprint #Fly #SadhguruWisdom

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs. I’ve heard from people who are wondering anew about the FDE career path since OpenAI and Anthropic started building new teams to place FDEs within client organizations.

The rise of FDEs for AI workloads is one way AI is creating new jobs (and why the jobpolcalypse narrative of upcoming job market collapse is false -- there will be many AI and non-AI jobs). However, I believe there will be far more AI Engineer jobs than FDEs, as I explain below.

The FDE role was pioneered about two decades ago by Palantir, which sent engineers to government locations to work on secure, air-gapped networks. In addition to having good technical skills, FDEs need communication skills and sometimes business skills. For example, they may need to speak with clients to understand their needs, formulate a strategy to prioritize projects, explain complex technology, and respectfully push back if a client asks for something unrealistic. They’re enjoying a resurgence because of the amount of work involved in taking an off-the-shelf LLM and building it into a custom agentic workflow that fits particular business needs.

However, I believe the number of AI Engineer jobs will be far larger. A company might accept a few FDEs to be embedded within its organization. But most companies will want far more of their own employees working on their projects. While my organizations do hire FDEs, we hire far more AI Engineers! Also, a common client concern is that it is hard to find vendor-neutral FDEs — they are, after all, there to deeply integrate a particular vendor’s product into a company. In this moment when it’s hard to predict which AI service will be the best one in a year’s time, optionality (the ability to pick whatever vendor turns out to fit best in the future) is very valuable. In contrast, letting FDEs tightly bind a company’s processes significantly reduces optionality.

Right now, I see surging demand for AI Engineers who can build software applications using AI software components (like LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, etc.) and effectively use AI coding agents (like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and OpenCode). As the AI Engineer role matures, I expect it to fragment into more specialized roles, like the generic Software Engineer role from decades ago fragmented into frontend, backend, mobile, data engineering, devops, and so on.

What will be the future, specialized AI engineering roles? I don’t know. Perhaps there will be AI FDEs, LLMOps Engineers, Evals Engineers, AI Data Engineers, Harness Engineers, and other roles we don’t have names for yet. But for now, I see a lot of AI engineers who are generalists create a lot of value. Skilled AI Engineers are in very high demand! As our field continues to mature over the coming decade, I look forward to new specializations within AI Engineering that create even more job opportunities.

[Original text: The Batch newsletter]

[Gajesh @gajesh]

Darkbloom just completed a major network upgrade!

BIG UPDATE: We’re moving from Research Preview to Public Alpha.

In the last month:
- 1000s of provider signups, 250 live providers at peak
- 600M+ tokens served

With this upgrade, performance is up 30–200% across key metrics like TTFT, TPS, and total tokens served.

The goal is simple: private, low-cost inference, powered by idle Macs.

We’re starting with Gemma 4 and GPT-OSS, then slowly ramping up to larger models as we load test and scale over the next 2 weeks.

Providers: go to darkbloom [dot] dev, scroll to down, and run the install command.

Thank you to everyone who has been running nodes, giving feedback, and helping us build this network.

Waking up the world’s sleeping compute!

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

He just revealed the most important skill you can learn in your life‼️

[malhar @MalharDotTech]

@Nation1199 Uhh i think people don't know about mobile farming. Or social farming.

[Ben Ten @Ben_1Ten]

Anand Ranganathan sir rates Modi ji government sector by sector
👇👇

[Lunix @SolLunix]

Pavel durov, Net worth $15 billion doesn't own a phone.

[Aaron @IAmAaronWill]

Mental masturbation. When you tell other people your plans so you get approval and validation. But only do so to get dopamine. That then makes you less likely to do the task because you’ve already gotten rewarded from it. Better to stay quiet, do the task, then get dopamine.