u/Gullible_Mousse_4590 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Looking in a tech climate like this for any company to claim that over have of the fellows that are placed don’t have a CS degree and that fellows with less than one year of experience increased to $148k without backing it up with real data is hard to believe. And when people 202
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
A) correct, I have equity as an owner and Formation is venture backed. I have not made a single penny from my equity and I have purchased additional equity, but I do own equity.
B) Excellent question. we spent 7 years building a PLATFORM that is completely unique and patended and built from the ground up to enables us to to configure practice and benchmarking dynamically.
This technology has has a number of people contribute to it over the years and will support the AI and ML people contributing to it as well.
My personal expertise lies in AI PRODUCTIVITY - using AI to replace a number of engineers and using it to make me 5X more productive through 20,000 commits and counting.
So I'm not out of the game by any means but I don't have any ML experience - our first product in this space is focused on productivity using AI tools, which honestly doesn't overlap much with Codesmith's AI program.
Our offering is about helping people be more productive on the job, get more done and become irreplaceable by delivering more output faster... real, tangible output.