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Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management

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baobabKoodaa ◴[30 Aug 25 15:14 UTC] No.45075361[source]▶
Andrew Ng has had a really sad career trajectory to a point where it's hard to take him seriously anymore. When I started in ML the very first course I took was actually Andrew Ng's course and it was amazingly good. But the past few years whenever he pops up, it always seems to be him repeating the talking points of some AI company that's paying him money. It's like seeing your hero turn into a complete sellout, shoveling bullshit for anyone who pays him.
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sitkack ◴[30 Aug 25 15:53 UTC] No.45075669[source]▶
You haven't made any quantitative statements. Low effort personal attack.

Who is paying him here?

From your comment, you can't even tell the topic, let alone the actual idea he is putting forth.

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1. bgwalter ◴[30 Aug 25 16:02 UTC] No.45075730[source]▶
He has a startup "AI" Fund:

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-vibe-coding-unfort...

So, at least his investors that he convinces are paying him. I do not know if he has other engagements in that area like speaker's fees etc.

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2. baobabKoodaa ◴[30 Aug 25 18:29 UTC] No.45076934[source]▶
In addition, here are "courses" that he peddles nowadays: https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/

If you look into the courses, each one is basically a ~1 hour infomercial made in collaboration with a commercial company that is selling a product.

Just to pick one off the top, here's "Fast Prototyping of GenAI Apps with Streamlit"

Description: "Build and iterate GenAI apps in hours instead of days! Start with a simple chatbot, then add prompt engineering and RAG powered by Snowflake’s secure data and LLM services, then push your prototype to Snowflake or Streamlit Community Cloud for instant feedback and quick improvement."

Instructor: "Dr. Chanin Nantasenamat is a Senior Developer Advocate at Snowflake, where he creates educational content for Streamlit and teaches developers to build interactive data apps."

Every one of his "courses" are like this. It's fucking disgraceful.