The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Bret Taylor is a natural fit for The Architect, a leader who builds durable systems and products rather than chasing the spotlight. His career is a chain of foundational construction, co-creating Google Maps, building FriendFeed, serving as Facebook CTO where he shaped core platform infrastructure, founding Quip, and rising to co-CEO of Salesforce.
“And at each one of those, because you have so many smart people working on them, you often have people discovering a breakthrough in each of them.”
“I think a reasonable definition of AGI might be that. Any task that a person can do at a computer, that system can do on par or better. I'm not sure that's a precise definition, but I'll tell you where that comes from and its flaws, but there's not a perfect definition of AGI, in my opinion, or there's not a precise definition of AGI.”
“Uncomfortable, not really an education where it's just earlier in most people's lives. It's just, I think the pace of change exceeds that of most technology transitions. And I think it's unreasonable to expect most people to change the way they work that quickly.”
“Start to treat their code as too precious. It can really impede forward progress. And I'll just take my understanding is a lot of the early self-driving car software was a lot of hand-coded heuristics and rules.”
ClickHouse: “Fireside Chat: The state of data and AI with Bret Taylor (Sierra) and Aaron Katz (ClickHouse)”
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