David Murgatroyd

I love giving leadership to people, ideas, and tech that together empower meaningful experiences to improve lives. #AI #Personalization @SpotifyEng

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

3. Agility in software engineering becomes more important. Our speed improves faster than our forecasting.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

As I gain more experience with AI tools in a large organization, three principles for the future of software engineering:
1. Humans will always be best at understanding humans since we are embodied, conscious, and have empathetic theories of other minds.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

2. Good software engineering principles like encapsulation won't change. Whether a robot or human is trying to understand code they'll want to do it efficiently.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

The more experience I get with the arc of #GenerativeAI the more I sense that in the long run we'll all essentially become product managers or platform engineers.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

I like radical @candor but think it doesn't go deep enough: personal care and direct challenge aren't orthogonal dimensions -- challenging is a deep form of caring.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

Glad to hear a @YaleDivSchool prof [1] and the CEO of @AnthropicAI [2] each affirm that AI will drive home that meaning in life can't come from being the best at something.

[1] @MiroslavVolf - https://t.co/0sYmYKxx9z
[2] @DarioAmodei -https://t.co/BsBLdB9y2S

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

Glad to have our team's understanding of you and the music you love helping power this great feature. I'm enjoying my own "unwinding lush Tuesday afternoon".

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

Today, we launched our newest feature daylist, a playlist that evolves with you throughout the day. What did I learn from mine? Well, for starters, my best days start with early morning hip hop and apparently I manifest tropical vibes as the sun goes down. Who knew? 🤣What’s your daylist looking like? https://t.co/J2rWvNBIZP

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

I’m grateful for the life of @BrownCSDept’s Eugene Charniak who passed on Tuesday. His “Statistical Language Learning” book helped pave the way for me into #NLP in the late 90s.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

The more I learn about #prompt engineering #LLM the more it seems another step in structured programming langs. Hallucinations are corner cases and inner monologue is recursion. Just as programmers provided less structure in Java than in C++ they provide less to GPT4 than to GPT3

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

#ChatGPT is impressive, like having a clever high schooler for each domain of human knowledge answer any request. Its output is not innovative or insightful but seems competent. I empathize with those of us trying to detect when it’s not competent…and with high school teachers.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

@bernhardsson @swyx It depends in what way they’re advanced. If solely technically then yes, a bias to build. But if also advanced in decision making among multiple stakeholders then no. The head of engineering is usually more inclined to buy than the integrating engineer who loves infra problems.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

@841io ...the makings of a fun discussion at the hotel bar on which group does the best job deriving meaning from language.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

Why have hack time? To empower folks to do something they think is valuable for the org without having to do the usual convincing of their leads that it's valuable. It's an acknowledgement by leads that your own perception of what's valuable is imperfect.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

@jcloudm @SpotifyEng @RynnSounds Our pleasure, my friend. And I just discovered @RynnSounds thanks to you. Yeehaw.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

When your values are a firm foundation and your mission is an inspiring aspiration, good things happen... https://t.co/jvC5Bn7mxs

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

@plamere I feel ya, Paul.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

Excited to be charting the future of knowledge work (from anywhere) the Spotify way! #MachineLearning friends — if location was a barrier, look again! https://t.co/d7Vvy59UZ3

[Spotify News @SpotifyNews]

Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere, which allows employees to choose to work from the place that suits their style best. Read more about our thinking. https://t.co/EqFZA39qYp

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

Glad my favorite leadership podcast @patricklencioni celebrated work friends (https://t.co/KeVQ6V0ZRW), but I’d amend to say friendships at work are different because of a 3rd party: the org, which complicates things because of varying accountabilities and time spent together.

[David Murgatroyd @dmurga]

@fulhack Expecting negotiation doesn’t mean making an unfair offer. Never do that. It just seems unrealistic to expect the right offer to start. It might be only when reviewing it that the candidate realizes they need a one-off vacation bump or a different mix of salary and equity.