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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

SaaStr

"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."

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The Rise of the Agent Manager

Tom Tunguz

In software engineering, Github’s pull requests or Linear tickets serve this purpose. Very productive AI software engineers manage 10-15 agents by specifying 10-15 tasks in detail, sending them to an AI, waiting until completion & then reviewing the work.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

It’s a good set of people that can work together and be multidisciplinary – software, engineering, product management, strategy – a cohesive group.” Why a dozen? ” Critical mass : “If we didn’t have enough money to hire a dozen great people, we shouldn’t have started to do anything.”

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Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

SaaStr

” Vincent predicts: “Designers will be able to create software, engineers will be able to create designs, and all of these roles are going to start blending together.” ” Figma envisions a “role collapse.”

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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AI is On Fire. But Will There Be Enough Decacorn Exits?

SaaStr

Consider these acceleration case studies: Cognition AI : Reached $2 billion valuation in just 5 months after founding in November 2023, becoming “the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer” xAI : Elon Musk’s AI venture achieved a $24 billion valuation in under 10 months, breaking records for rapid value creation (..)

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How Much of Customer Support Will AI Replace? Gartner Says 80%

SaaStr

So while AI for coding and software engineering has seen some of the most explosive start-ups, from Codeium to Loveable to Poolside to Claude and OpenAi’s own releases here and more, just as big if quieter has been the change to contact center and support.