What Vicki Boykis thinks about simplicity
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Vicki Boykis has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsDeleting code is hard, particularly because it's a thankless task that usually doesn't go on promo packets, which is why we end up shipping hundreds of thousands of lines of sparkle emoji magic wand AI features, but deleting code is silent.
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Their wordsWe should strive for simplicity. If we can't, it could be because we don't understand the problem ourselves yet enough to compress it.