Building AI systems that eventually make the CIO redundant Five years from now, Mike wants to be unemployed – by design.“ My objective is to work my way out of a job. I think I do that by adding solutions that are AI-enabled and learn and grow. We take what we did with Snowflake on Snowflake, and we do AI on AI.”
It’ s not about automation for its own sake.“ The more I do of that, I think the faster the company can be nimble internally to support our growth externally. And then, eventually, the bots will run the world, and I’ m going to retire!”
Meanwhile, the industry oscillates between panic and euphoria.
“ The technology is evolving faster than companies are. That’ s always true, but in the age of AI, it’ s going so fast.”
He’ s seen both extremes.“ A CEO says,‘ I saw this really cool demo, and you should build a bot,’ or someone at JP Morgan says,‘ We should fire 50 % of our engineers because bots are going to write the code for us.’ You’ ve got to bring that back to reality fast.”
His prescription? Run two tracks simultaneously.“ It’ s almost like you’ ve got to split your company into two brains – one saying‘ go forward’ and you catch up behind them, cleaning all this up as fast as possible. It’ s one of the reasons I’ m at Snowflake, because I think that catch-up is exciting as well.”
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