1019: Anyone Can Write Code Now, So What Gets You Hired? (With Priyanka Vergadia)
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Priyanka Vergadia discusses the importance of employee training in maximizing the return on AI tool investments.
In Episode #1019, Priyanka Vergadia (founder of The Cloud Girl, former Senior Director of AI Transformation at Microsoft and Head of North America Developer Relations at Google) joins Jon Krohn to explain why almost every company has bought AI tools and almost none of them are seeing a return. Her fix is a budget split that will make any CFO wince: seven dollars on training employees for every dollar spent on the tools themselves. Having spent a decade turning dense cloud and AI concepts into sketches that a quarter-million developers actually remember, and having carried GitHub Copilot into Fortune 100 boardrooms, she has watched the gap between tool purchase and real production use up close. In this episode, Priyanka defines the elusive quality she calls taste, walks through how she structures Claude skills so her output stops being slop, unpacks her 10-20-70 framework, and shares breaking news about what she is building next. Additional materials: https://www.superdatascience.com/1019 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com…
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