Vas (Vasuman) from Varick Agents
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first heard Jul 2026
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clogged budget in like three months it was supposed to last them a year because they gave it to everybody it's token maxing and everyone's spinning up whatever they need and and and the sad reality is it didn't really move the needle for the business either and it's because that business didn't really invest heavily into forward engineering and so i think you're totally right cool let's keep going
So we've already alluded to this pretty heavily prior, but I want to really make sure I hammer down this point, which is that there's two sort of streams of kinds of judgment that are required.
And it's very rare in a single person.
So I think the unfortunate reality is, and this is what's going to happen, it's already starting to happen, is as we go from the token maxing, let's go all in on token maxing, go, go, go, to now the same thing on FTE, let's go, go, go, let's hire more FTEs.
I want to be very clear about what the role really demands.
I think there's a lot of FDEs who are, unfortunately, neither the best communicators and neither the best software engineers.
I would strongly urge them to strengthen both of those skills.
It's both the understanding of workflows, cost, incentives, risk, adoption, business value, the politics of the internals of a company.
These are all things that you have to manage.
And consultants here are incredibly strong.
You'll talk to McKinsey engagement managers, BCG, Bain engagement managers, they'll be very good at this side.
The other side is what they might need some more support in.
And same thing, software engineers will be very good at the right side with models, systems,
APIs, data, code, reliability, evals, guardrails, more AI-centered terms, harnesses, post-training, fine-tuning.
These are things that are more on the technical side of the aisle.
And software engineers are very good at this, but they need to also then kind of drift towards the business side by understanding the left side of the aisle.
And FTE is the best combination of both of these.
It's not an average combination.
It's not the worst combination of both where
You're not the best communicator, but you also can't code.
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