Letters from Andrew Ng

Personal messages to the AI community

Letters

Forward Deployed Engineers and the Future of AI Engineering

One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.

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Building Voice-Enabled Apps is Easier Than You May Think: Voice-enabled AI applications are improving quickly. Get ready for the next wave of AI!

Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become.

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That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.

I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.

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