ProfessorCraigA

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

Ask the powerful five questions. To @realDonaldTrump @GOP @TheDemocrats @USSupremeCourt

Whom do you serve?

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[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@AbiluTangwa @PCarterClimate 🙏

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

The antidote to arrogance is not ignorance, but profound humility. It’s the understanding that a whale’s migration, a mycorrhizal network, and a mangrove’s root system represent a wisdom we are only beginning to decode. Our role is student, not master.

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@aiwithjainam Students who highlight readings and then return to read their highlights fall victim to familiarity bias. What looks familiar is something you know cold, right? Nope.

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@aiwithjainam I can vouch for all of these techniques. No one teaches these to you in school. I started teaching some after I discovered them from my research as a doctoral student.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

ABC and CBS paid Trump.
NBC gave to his ballroom.
Scott Pelley took a stand and was fired.
CNN is next.

Trump sued me. I fought and won. Democracy Docket is fearlessly independent and always pro-democracy. Help it grow by subscribing now. https://t.co/bZLgVCQ4Xq

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. https://t.co/y3fgOAbLRJ

[Tom Wilson @wwefan969696]

@marceelias Complete bullshit but not surprised. Bigots of the supreme court strike again.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Bill Pulte is a proven crook who will target anyone Trump considers an enemy.

He isn't qualified for his current job, and he would pose an actual threat to our national security as Acting Director of National Intelligence.

Every Senator should demand he be fired immediately.

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

I worked as a busboy, bartender, cook, and waiter through high school and college. “86” always meant we were out of that item and we could no longer offer it. “It’s off the menu” is the most relevant interpretation of 86. https://t.co/F6s4SUN4Yd via @NYTimes

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

@Molson_Hart I was at a dinner with JD Vance. He told a heart warming story about his son and Pokémon cards.

I was at a party with him two days later.
Told the same story, word for word.

Politicians are just ugly actors lol

[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]

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

A forensic accounting summary in the Epstein files tallied every payment between his entities and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Table A, transfers to Maxwell with no repayment found: $25,246,955.30.

Grand total, after offsets: $23,179,359.47.

Dated June 15, 2021. Marked draft.

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@JamesTate121 @Mike_Tzu_ Being the third lady

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@levie This is the true enabling power of Ai for those companies that can achieve this level of routinization and integration of their tacit knowledge and competencies. AI used in this way (or not) will produce the variances in performance outcomes

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

BREAKING: 98% of the total wealth in the U.S. is now held by Anthropic employees, with OpenAI employees holding the remaining 2%

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@ihtesham2005 @stevenbjohnson @paulg has several excellent essays on how to get good ideas for startups https://t.co/k9LF1HvX7H

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

@ihtesham2005 For anyone interested in reading a fascinating account of this process, see @stevenbjohnson “Where Good Ideas Come from.” Slow hunches and walking (literally) away are effective paths to creativity!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.

Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!

[ProfessorCraigA @ProfCraigA]

A story about #jobcreation due to the integration of A.I. technologies with humans. Not hysterical - useful. @levie and team are thinking about this trend the right way.
How One Tech Company Created 13 New Types of Jobs Because of A.I. https://t.co/u0KdyOJIkK