@rohanpaul_ai: How Andrew Ng organizes his engineering team to move faster in the era of AI. "1 to 10 engineers in a team, often made …
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Andrew Ng shares his approach to organizing engineering teams for faster development in the AI era, emphasizing small teams of high-context generalists to reduce organizational bottlenecks.
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How Andrew Ng organizes his engineering team to move faster in the era of AI.
“1 to 10 engineers in a team, often made up of generalists: high-context, highly empowered generalists.”
When code gets generated much faster, organizations become the slow part.
Once a feature can move from idea to working prototype in a day, every surrounding function is suddenly exposed.
Product has to decide faster, design has to clarify faster, marketing has to understand faster, and legal has to review faster.
So his way is 1-10 high-context generalists who can move much faster because they do not need every decision translated across departments before anything happens.
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