Jeff Dean
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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Sure, sounds great.
Yeah, I'm afraid I've lost my voice.
I don't normally sound quite like this, but we'll do what we can.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based, longer-running coding tasks.
And it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable.
And depending on exactly your definition of junior engineer, it seems pretty spot on, I would say.
I mean, I think the...
the ability to do more and more complex tasks has been growing faster than I thought.
And I also think outside of coding, these agent-based systems are really starting to shine in other domains.
And I think that's gonna be an important trend in the future.
I think you will see a lot more automation of ML systems themselves, basically getting ML systems to improve their capabilities by running lots of experiments, breaking things down into sub problems, running those sub problems in a tight automatic experimentation loop, putting the results together and being able to then get some improved system.
out from that sort of fully automated problem decomposition and automated experimentation.
I think that's going to be really exciting.
I think that also applies not just to ML, but also to other fields of science and engineering.
Basically anything where you can have a measurable objective, I think you can actually make a lot of progress these days.
Yeah, I mean, it's a little different, but I think you're going to see more and more
high performance and low energy inference hardware systems.
Because I think everyone is now realizing that inference is the key to making these agent-based systems be available to more and more people.
And
that latency is really important and that specialization of the hardware is a really key way you can make things that are more energy efficient and lower latency than more general purpose computational devices like, say, GPUs or TPUs.
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