I did my PhD at Berkeley back in the late 90s early 2000s in the dot-com Boom and then bust days. I had a job offer coming out of grad school from a tiny startup that was building this thing called a search engine, Google. So ended up going into academia spent eight years on the faculty at Harvard in computer science. Joined an up-and-coming startup here in Seattle called OctoML which was founded by a good friend and colleague of mine who's a professor at University of Washington. Spent about two years there leading the engineering team at OctoML and then left about a year ago to start Fixie What is your career story? Share it with
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Welsh, founder of Fixie.ai, to talk about how artificial intelligence will replace human programmers (3:25), its growing capabilities (8:20), the power of natural language prompts (13:20), running the numbers (16:15), historical precedents (21:30), on whether there is a development “brick wall” coming (25:00), why this AI moment has arrived (27:50), whether OpenAI will have a defensible business model (32:30), Fixie’s plan (35:40), a world of bespoke AIs for different industries (41:20), Welsh’s history at Google, Apple and startups (43:50), starting Fixie (46:30), and the societal shift to come (50:45).
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