Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?
SaaStr
JANUARY 11, 2025
"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."
Gordian Knots in Software Engineering
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 8, 2024
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. Latency encompasses the entire chain. Alexander the Great cut through the Gordian knot with his sword.
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The Convergence of Data & Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team. Data teams architect their systems in a modular way, paralleling the microservices movement in software design.
How to prepare for software engineering interview questions
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 24, 2019
Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.
How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.
How Much of Customer Support Will AI Replace? Gartner Says 80%
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2025
So while AI for coding and software engineering has seen some of the most explosive start-ups, from Codeium to Loveable to Poolside to Claude and OpenAi’s own releases here and more, just as big if quieter has been the change to contact center and support.
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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact
TechEmpower SaaS
MARCH 4, 2024
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. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.
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The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 17, 2021
Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home. Life insurance and emergency medicine certainly fit the COVID-19 narrative.
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Run Less Software
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.
Best Free Website Builders
The Daily Egg
JANUARY 12, 2021
Before modern and more intuitive website builders, coders and software engineers had to spend hours designing web pages, adding long […]. You followed the recipe perfectly and viola! Somehow, everything aligned. When it comes to building a website, it can work the same way.
How Much More Efficient Should a SaaS Startup Be When Using AI?
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 1, 2023
Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validate : AI initiatives focused on cost-reduction should start with engineering.
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Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef
FastSpring
APRIL 29, 2020
I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. I really enjoyed customizing my own profile, and that’s what drew me into wanting to learn more about how coding and how software development works. The post Employee Spotlight: Lucas Salisbury, Software Engineer, and Innovative Chef appeared first on FastSpring.
Calling future software engineers: Learn about UL’s equity, diversity and inclusion scholarship, funded by Intercom
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 15, 2022
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.
Biotech Revolution with Software Engineering Daily
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 19, 2024
The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications.”
Managing Data as Product : Office Hours with Philip Zelitchenko
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
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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The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
SaaStr
DECEMBER 8, 2023
At SaaStr Annual , he was joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini to discuss the new architecture for building Software-as-a-Service applications with data and machine learning at their core. There’s tension between the two.
Trends in the Post-Modern Data Stack
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In the past, software engineering teams and data teams haven’t collaborated, but data pipelines & AI endpoints rapidly becoming essential parts of software, they now work together much more closely. AI is changing the structure of data teams. New BI systems will enable both. Vectors power AI systems.
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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team
TechEmpower SaaS
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players! And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time.
Data Product Teams : Best Practices for a Modern Data Team
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. I learned a tremendous amount about the way modern data teams, who leverage software engineering disciplines, operate. The video is here. For Philip, leading the data team is about focusing on the data products that drive meaningful value to the company.
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Infinicept
OCTOBER 12, 2021
We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing
SaaStr
MARCH 18, 2025
Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Project Selection: Where Enterprises Go Wrong Many companies stumble by deploying AI in high-risk, customer-facing applications first (like chatbots). This is exactly backward.
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When AI Becomes Table Stakes
Tom Tunguz
JULY 4, 2022
Last week, I installed Github’s Copilot , a machine learning tool that helps engineers write software. Today, top grandmasters spar with supercomputer-powered chess engines to improve their play. Those sentiments echo in the articles about the end of software engineering that popped up after the Copilot launch.
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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?
Tom Tunguz
MAY 19, 2018
Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations. Voice isn’t broadly used to input data.
The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups
Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2022
Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
The 37% Rule: How to Decide When to Stop Wondering and Start Deciding
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 5, 2019
But I had forgotten about it until I listened to the author on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Earlier this year, I read Algorithms to Live By, a book that explains how to use insights from computer science in daily life. One of the rules is the 37% rule. It’s an important rule because it’s broadly applicable.
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Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.
How to start your career as a software engineer in a SAAS company
Agile Payments
MAY 5, 2020
How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.
Five Predictions for 2022
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. Or a personalized email to a sales prospect.
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Lead Software Engineer
Infinicept
OCTOBER 15, 2021
We focus on mission-critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or Remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.
Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 6, 2020
Patrick is an investor on Redpoint’s Early team and previously spent time as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Travis is Head of Founder Experience at Redpoint and was formerly SVP of Global Sales at Optimizely and VP of Platform Sales at Salesforce. How do you think about hiring?
Red Hat's Acquisition - A Triumph of Open Source
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 27, 2018
Over the weekend, IBM announced the largest software acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source software company, for $35B. It is the largest software acquisition in history, and the third largest technology acquisition (Dell/EMC at $67B and JDS/SDL for $41B were both larger hardware mergers). This price values the company at a 10.6x
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203 Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.
SaaS Billing Software: 7 Tools in 3 Categories & How to Choose
FastSpring
DECEMBER 9, 2022
SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. With many payment processors, you’ll need additional software to manage complex recurring payments, taxes, chargebacks, dunning, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.
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Infinicept
OCTOBER 9, 2021
We focus on mission critical applications and integrations that are the engine of our business. JOB DESCRIPTION Location: Denver or remote The Opportunity: Infinicept is a fast-growing, Denver-based fintech company. You will be an integral part of a small team that builds and maintains a platform that revolutionizes payment facilitation.
Employee Spotlight: Sudipto Manna, Senior Software Test Engineer and Chef Extraordinare
FastSpring
DECEMBER 24, 2019
I’m a Senior Software Test Engineer at FastSpring. I realized that in telecommunications there are only two entities involved, the business side and the software side, but with ecommerce, there’s another factor, the actual buyer which I thought was a really interesting component to add. What is your role at FastSpring?
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Making a global impact as an early career software engineer
Zuora
JULY 27, 2023
There’s nothing else in life that’s quite like going from expert youth to […] The post Making a global impact as an early career software engineer appeared first on Zuora. Starting your career is an intense transition.
Thanks to Mercury, Rattle, Remote, Trustero, and Vention for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!
SaaStr
JUNE 22, 2023
Vention is the premier global leader in software engineering, synonymous with technology designed for scale and the common denominator behind the world’s most successful tech-empowered enterprises, industry innovators, and startups.
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To Be or Not To Be an Agent
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 24, 2024
Should software assist humans or act on their behalf? The next generation of software startups have a strategic question with different terminology & potentially a different conclusion. Devin AI, the world’s first AI software engineer aka agent , authors software in place of a human.
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Building “Minicom”: How our engineering interviews illustrate our values
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 19, 2018
It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. Most interviews are so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. At Intercom, the interview process is different.
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Foundations to build on: Intercom’s principles for building product
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 23, 2019
One team heavily believes in Big Design Up Front , another follows Lean start-up , a third tries to instil PRINCE-2 , and before you know it your process is a patchwork quilt of all sorts of conflicting ways to build software. Software engineering isn’t just about the cold logic of computers. Note: no principle is a truism.
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Not investing in localization is costing you more than you think
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 17, 2020
Combining the power of the Intercom API with Lokalise’s localization management software, Intercom customers can now leverage live chat translations to engage in real-time conversations with customers in any market through the Intercom Messenger.
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Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 8, 2020
That’s to say nothing of the PreCambrian explosion in the number of software engineers who used to number in the hundreds of thousands but today tally in the many millions, most of whom gravitate to the terminal already.
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Tom Tunguz - Untitled Article
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
No longer are they just post-analysis teams; they are now becoming software engineering teams that use data to build products. Title: The Evolution of Data Teams and Data Security Over the past few years, we’ve seen a significant change in the way data teams operate. This shift has brought with it a new reality for data security.
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