Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft, where he leads the company’s AI and technology strategy at global scale and played a pivotal role in Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Prior to Microsoft, Kevin spent six years at Linkedin as SVP of Engineering. Kevin has also enjoyed advisory positions with Pinterest, Box, Code.org and more.
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:08 Where is Enduring Value in a World of AI
08:13 Why Scaling Laws are BS
10:00 What is the Bottleneck Today: Data, Compute or Algorithms
13:21 In 10 Years Time: What % of Data Usage will be Synthetic
18:59 How Will AI Agents Evolve Over the Next Five Years
30:15 The Future of Software Development
35:05 The Thing That Most Excites Me in AI is Tech Debt
39:01 Quick-Fire Round
41:27 Leadership Lessons from Satya Nadella
42:36 DeepSeek Evolution: Do We Underestimate China
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