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Develop Yourself · Yesterday · 32 min

Why Most Companies Don’t Actually Need AI

Everybody is trying to cram AI into their business whether it fits or not. Jeff Kuo, founder and CEO of Ragic, has been building software for over 20 years and has some blunt opinions on where AI actually belongs. We get into why most “AI projects” are really just things companies haven’t automated yet, how Ragic swapped an expensive LLM call for a classifier and cut costs 140x while getting more accurate, the lowest-risk first use of AI for any business, and whether new grads can still become senior engineers without writing code by hand. Jeff also shares how Ragic started as his master’s thesis while he was working inside TSMC, and how he bootstrapped it with zero venture funding. Learn more about Ragic: https://www.ragic.com Want to learn to build production AI systems? https://parsity.io/ai-dev

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Everybody is trying to cram AI into their business whether it fits or not. Jeff Kuo, founder and CEO of Ragic, has been building software for over 20 years and has some blunt opinions on where AI actually belongs.

We get into why most “AI projects” are really just things companies haven’t automated yet, how Ragic swapped an expensive LLM call for a classifier and cut costs 140x while getting more accurate, the lowest-risk first use of AI for any business, and whether new grads can still become senior engineers without writing code by hand.

Jeff also shares how Ragic started as his master’s thesis while he was working inside TSMC, and how he bootstrapped it with zero venture funding.

Learn more about Ragic: https://www.ragic.com

Want to learn to build production AI systems? https://parsity.io/ai-dev

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