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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

SaaStr

"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI." But it has created a two-tiered comp system for engineers. The AI Team often makes a lot more.

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Gordian Knots in Software Engineering

Tom Tunguz

In graduate school, I attended an operations course that assigned the book The Goal , a fictional story about a manager tasked with optimizing a declining business. Lines of code or number of commits focus on components of the engineering process. Perhaps, latency optimization is the analogue in managing software engineering teams.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower SaaS

This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime.

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How Much More Efficient Should a SaaS Startup Be When Using AI?

Tom Tunguz

If we assume some basic productivity gains in a typical SaaS company from AI in the next 12-24 months, how much more profitable will the business be? Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Software engineering sees the greatest benefit.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. This is exactly backward.

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Calling future software engineers: Learn about UL’s equity, diversity and inclusion scholarship, funded by Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Software engineering will play a crucial role in the future of business, society, and even our planet. Practical experience.

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Managing Data as Product : Office Hours with Philip Zelitchenko

Tom Tunguz

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.

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