Jason Yang (Sr AI Engineer, Snowflake) on the Tim O'Reilly fireside — 'As a data guy I loved that he treats governance as an engineering problem, not a values statement'

Yang is a senior AI engineer at Snowflake. He went to the Tim O'Reilly fireside at Pier 48 and wrote it up from a builder's seat, noting O'Reilly on mechanism design and Eric's wish to redefine profit as maximizing human flourishing.

“Ries talked about advising Anthropic's founders back when they left OpenAI. His argument in Incorruptible is that good companies go bad not because the founders are sleazy, but because incentives quietly eat the mission over time. Anthropic is his example of a company that designed its structure to defend against that from day one. As a data guy I loved that he treats governance as an engineering problem, not a values statement.” — Jason Yang on LinkedIn