Ben Greene, multi-time founding CTO now building Tessie.ai to speed disaster recovery with AI and geospatial imagery. He talks about engineers embracing generative AI, shifting from pure coding to business context, the rise of forward-deployed engineering and empathy, systems thinking as a competitive edge, and when to favor agents versus traditional code.
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Founding Tessie.ai For Disaster Relief
Ben Greene describes founding multiple startups and currently building Tessie.ai for disaster recovery.
Tessie.ai uses geospatial imagery and AI to speed home repairs after natural disasters.
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Embrace AI And Broaden Your Impact
Embrace generative AI to multiply your productivity and delegate repetitive tasks.
Think beyond code and learn how your work contributes to business outcomes.
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Abstraction Collapse Changes Value
AI both raises the abstraction level and collapses layers by letting us program in natural language.
This shifts value from moving bits to solving real-world problems tied to people and outcomes.
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