AnalysisDevelopersJuly 30, 2026
Jeff Dean shares the 1% rule for building AI
Jeff Dean recounts how a 2001 napkin calculation led to shipping Google's search index in RAM in days, and a 2013 calculation about speech recognition requiring doubling Google's compute. He also discusses the '1% rule' for prioritizing engineering efforts.
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