SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is every AI lab starting a deployment company? Matt Slotnick on what's driving the trend: "The thing we currently call FDE is gonna blossom into a lot more different jobs... all really about how do we bring applied intelligence into the flow of work and out... of the data center and into the real world." "Every company will, in some ways, become a deployment company."show more

@matt_slotnick Joking aside, there is a big difference between FDE as a noun vs a verb.

@matt_slotnick thesis keeps playing out

@matt_slotnick Problem market fit and product market fit are distinctive indeed. In the absence of the product or the fit, enfranchised POCs do the trick.

Dont really get why so many people are talking about FDEs. AI Labs have a scaling product. They want to turn: "We sell an API/model. You figure out how to use it." to "We send humans into your company to turn our model into your workflow, your data layer, your habits, your internal tooling, your switching costs." Yes, they are just consultants. It's not exactly a mystery.

@matt_slotnick Convoluted way to say, we need business people (consultants) to deploy solutions in the real world...because we really don't understand how business works and we don't like talking to people.

@matt_slotnick As a software engineer, I've noticed most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a deployment problem. The model works. Getting it connected to legacy systems, business processes, permissions, data quality, and real users is where 90% of the work begins.

@matt_slotnick Glorified consultants

Such a great take. Companies will need to build throwaway software to onboard, to migrate, to activate customers going thru software deployment esp like ERP or Accounting and we will see custom agent frameworks to then coordinate both joint reporting as well as CEO level reporting natively in Slack and Email for almost every Application out there seeking procurement.

@matt_slotnick 确实每个人都有这个趋势