Mike Vernal
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American investor and engineer, general partner at Conviction; earlier a vice president of product and engineering at Facebook and a partner at Sequoia Capital.
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For most companies, IT is their software engineering: they have no software engineers, only an IT department deploying software. (opens korrents.com)
“IT *is* software engineering for most companies in the world. Most companies don’t have software engineers – they have an IT department that is responsible for deploying software to make the business run…”
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AI agents may create an innovator's dilemma for low-margin consumer services whose profits come from in-product ads. (opens korrents.com)
“It'll be interesting to see if this creates a modern form of the innovator's dilemma, i.e., enabling agentic use (which is unequivocally pro-customer) cuts deeply to their bottom line, creating opportunity for those…”
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Once software no longer has to expose all its functionality through the UI, it can become dramatically simpler. (opens korrents.com)
“I do think once we relax the concept that "all functionality needs to be exposed via the UI," we give software the chance to be dramatically simpler.”
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For most companies, IT is their software engineering: they have no software engineers, only an IT department deploying software. (opens korrents.com)