Google DeepMind | Research Scientist, AI for Code | Full-time | Mountain View, CA, USA
Hello! We are looking to hire a Research Scientist with experience in AI for Code and an interest in building real-world products. You’ll be embedded within a small project team of Research Engineers, and will be expected to drive the foundational research direction with the potential for significant impact in the short and long term.
Please only apply if you have specifically AI for Code experience, e.g. prior research, publications, and/or launched products in areas like code generation, code understanding, etc. I will also not be able to respond to individual inquiries, as much as I'd like to, but we will do our best to answer any questions during the selection and interview process. Applications can be submitted at https://boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/6407397. Thank you!
This is good advice - to clarify, when I said "DIY" I meant "DIY for him" haha. Wix has gotten a few votes here, sounds like that's the way to go. Thank you!
Yeah, especially if it's DIY for him and not you, the pagebuilders excel at that. Wix is my personal favorite, but also check out Squarespace, the completely unrelated Square business pages (especially if he already uses Square to handle payments), Weebly, etc. It's a moderately-sized space with a few established players.
What these services do that Wordpress does NOT do is abstract away the whole stack and manage all of it for the user. Your plumber pays a tiny monthly fee ($10-$20) and all he ever has to worry about is look and feel, as in he chooses a theme, adds some text and images and contact info... and done. He'll never have to worry about hosting or updates or plug-ins or "post vs page" or hierarchies of nav menus or "invalidating a cache" or "updating the database" or any of the other low-level stuff that Wordpress still makes painfully obvious.
Nothing against Wordpress, it's a powerful FOSS solution and what gave me my start in web dev, it's just no longer the best tool for the job. I've migrated several clients from Wordpress to Wix and they are MUCH happier. Wordpress will inevitably incur maintenance costs a year or two after deployment, and they'll either have to ask you back to help or hire another dev then. Even hosted on Wordpress.com with a lot of the power features disabled, it's still way too low-level compared to the actual page builder services.
Thanks so much! Based on recommendations I'm between Wordpress and Wix right now. Wix seems to be slightly more user-friendly, which my plumber friend will really appreciate, but maybe these premium Wordpress themes are the ticket.
Definitely don't make someone not techie use WordPress. It has a lot of UX issues that are hard to understand, compounded with endless marketing for Jetpack and caches and plug-ins and themes and always needing updates. I've set up dozens of those for friends and small business and it's a way bigger headache than you think.
Just use Wix. It's set and forget. WordPress is not.
Your plumber doesn't need a blog, just a business page. Wix excels at that. WordPress is terrible at it, even with a custom theme, because the underlying engine is designed around blogs.
Hello! We are looking to hire a Research Scientist with experience in AI for Code and an interest in building real-world products. You’ll be embedded within a small project team of Research Engineers, and will be expected to drive the foundational research direction with the potential for significant impact in the short and long term.
Please only apply if you have specifically AI for Code experience, e.g. prior research, publications, and/or launched products in areas like code generation, code understanding, etc. I will also not be able to respond to individual inquiries, as much as I'd like to, but we will do our best to answer any questions during the selection and interview process. Applications can be submitted at https://boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/6407397. Thank you!