Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
01:58:55 · Mihail Eric, Shawn Wang, S2
[01:58:55] S1: That's right. Yeah. [01:58:56] S0: That's a good point. Yeah. And then... But I I do think, like, students should should, like, understand how to be ambitious because snapping a photo... I mean, respectfully, snapping a photo and turning it into an app is not that ambitious in in the... This day and age. Writing a browser is. And there... Then, like, there actually is a lot more projects like that. [01:59:12] S1: Yeah. Yeah. Think that's right. Yeah. It's all about raising the floor. I mean, I think, yeah, last year was, it would... You know, you know, credits credit to student of of last year, but, yeah, this year, I... Obviously, we're we're gonna expect... [01:59:23] S0: Gonna... That's a fail now. [01:59:24] S1: We're gonna expect more. I mean... Yeah. But that's but that's that's the whole point. Right? Like, we're leveling up. Right? Last year, it was like, yeah. Hey. Have you heard of prompting? Like, here's what it is. I mean, I spent some time talking about, like, you know, k shot prompting as one of the lessons. And, like, I don't even think you guys even think about that now. So... [01:59:38] S2: I think there's a there's a version of thinking you stick out in your cohort of classes. And then there's also a version of you're also in early engineering roles of a bunch of people in industry, people still trying to get jobs and it's not a... Not to call out one demo, but you can do a lot to stick out.
01:59:38 · S2, Shawn Wang, Mihail Eric
[01:59:38] S2: I think there's a there's a version of thinking you stick out in your cohort of classes. And then there's also a version of you're also in early engineering roles of a bunch of people in industry, people still trying to get jobs and it's not a... Not to call out one demo, but you can do a lot to stick out. [01:59:56] S0: I'll give students a freebie of a week 11, Make benchmarks. Make benchmarks and evals. This will get you a good one. It's gonna get you in the door of every Frontier lab and every front... Every top agent lab. [02:00:09] S2: Good good engineering blog posts with some rigor on anything interesting. There's a lot of benchmarks of low hanging fruit there, the engineering blog posts do really well. Right? You went deep on one thing. [02:00:21] S1: Yeah. And probably also there's like big... A lot of money to be made in that as well. So not just in the doors, but if you make that into businesses, you you can you can really, really cash in on that. [02:00:31] S2: Sell some [02:00:32] S0: more SWE-bench was, like, undergrad project. [02:00:35] S1: Yes. Yes. Yes. That's right. From from Princeton. Right? Yes. Yes. [02:00:41] S0: Great. Okay. Well, that's Thank you so much. [02:00:43] S1: Yeah. Thank you, guys.