Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

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Opening
Chip Huyen (00:00:00): A question that get asked a lot and a lot is, "How do we keep up to date with the latest AI news?" Why do you need to keep up to date with the latest AI news? If you talk to the users who understand what they want or they don't want, look into the feedback, then you can actually improve the application way, way, way more. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:15): A lot of companies are building AI products. A lot of companies are not having a good time building AI products....

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Low-ego framing
*Chip Huyen (00:00:00): A question that get asked a lot and a lot is, "How do we keep up to date with the latest AI news?" Why do you need to keep up to date with the latest AI news? If you talk to...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:40): I want to start with this table/chart that you shared on LinkedIn a...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ask with curiosity
thinking more of what is the value of junior engineers or senior engineers, how should we restructure engineering org for that? Yeah, so I do definitely think that is one thing to successful organization....

Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.

Accept praise cleanly
Chip Huyen (01:22:02): Mm-hmm. Lenny Rachitsky (01:22:03): Chip, thank you so much for being here. Chip Huyen (01:22:05): Thank you so much, Lenny, for having me. Lenny Rachitsky...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
a lot, but I keep telling myself that I should do more because I kind of like the conversation with readers. So I'm actually about to I start a Substack. So I have a placeholder for Substack right now and I'm thinking of doing it for more system thinking because I think it's a very interesting skill. I'm also thinking of doing a YouTube channel on book reviews and basically books than help you think better....

The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.