Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
Counterintuitive truth: AI has created more jobs than it has destroyed so far.
Look at OpenAI and Anthropic. As AI becomes more capable, they keep hiring more engineers and sales. We’re aggressively hiring cracked people at Databricks too.
It’s not AI replacing humans. It is humans with strong AI skill replacing humans without it.
so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating.
this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact.
it is possible this direction keeps going!