article thumbnail

What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The light bulb was invented in 1879, but it wasn’t until 1930 that 70% of US houses had electricity. Often, we hire people.

article thumbnail

Voice of the Customer (VoC): Beginners Guide on How to Collect Data Plus Best Practices

User Pilot

collecting and analyzing VoC data, helps your Customer Success team improve the user onboarding process. The Customer Success team’s role is to close the gap between customer expectation and customer experience. VoC has a granular approach as it focuses on specific questions, looking for specific answers from specific users.

Data 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Every time it happened I would say I’m, I’m a software developer.

article thumbnail

Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

Iceberg is an open table format developed by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks (2 of the 3 co-founders of Tabular) while they were at Netflix. Source: [link] I won’t go into the specifics of each layer (catalog, metadata, and data layers), but if you want more technical detail this post does a great job. So what does Iceberg enable?

Data 130