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The AI Forward Deployed Engineer is here. Amplify your development work with AI labor, and reach your next breakthrough faster than ever. At DevCon 3, watch as Palantir Software Engineer Ankit Shankar unveils the AI Forward Deployed Engineer — an agentic system that can build data transformations, create and... show more

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Crackyflipside1 year ago

AIP Assist is great to fetch documentation, but I can see this developing to a tool non-technical employees can quickly build & iterate on their enterprise ontology. Not to mention unlocking small & micro (side-gig) business markets whose individual revenue is too low to dedicate a physical engineer, especially if it assists with connecting data sources! The speed of platform development is so fast, you will soon need an AI tutorial generator to keep up with the changes 😅

Premium1 year ago

Have the best experience on X.

optimus pengu1 year ago

@thelastnode

brandon meyer1 year ago

@thelastnode What exactly do you mean by “creat and edit your ontology”?

Smokey da Bear1 year ago

@thelastnode 🔮

National Socialists of TikTok1 year ago

@thelastnode BROWN 😂

Invest with Uncle Scrooge 💰1 year ago

@thelastnode ONTOLOGY INCEPTION

Snow🍧1 year ago

@thelastnode

Ginny1 year ago

@thelastnode Defcon…………. 🆘

Robert Youssef1 year ago

@thelastnode sounds like a lot of buzzwords to me. remember, context is key. can it really deliver, or just more hype?

Alex Prompter1 year ago

@thelastnode sounds interesting, but curious how practical this really is. will it change day-to-day work or just add more steps?

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