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“If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — @ElenaVerna
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast.
“If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — @ElenaVerna
Linear CEO @karrisaarinen: "Making products produces two things: the product, and the learning. The effort you put into building and designing things teaches you something about what the problem is, what the customers want. We're in this time now that there's this danger of
Linear CEO @karrisaarinen: "I took a break this summer from paying attention to AI. I thought that when I came back, I'd feel left behind. But when I came back, I realized that nothing has really changed. There's new models, there's new techniques, there's new agents. But in the
Trend I'm following: Teams using AI "simulations" to quickly test product ideas and flow tweaks. Products like @simile_ai, @primitivelabsai, @syntheticusers, and others. If you've tried something like this, how'd it go?
.@thsottiaux (Head of ChatGPT & Codex) on the skills trending up and down in the AI era. Trending up: great taste, passion to build something that matters, knowing what good looks like. Trending down: typing fast.
"Having to set up and fiddle with your loops… I don't think this is the way that it's going to work." @thsottiaux (Head of ChatGPT & Codex) says we are heading towards Dots being the primary way you talk to AI. Full conversation:
My biggest takeaways from @thsottiaux: 1. Most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents, and Tibo doesn’t think most people have priced this in yet. When Notion launched its MCP server, it saw a flood of traffic, which strained its systems and forced it to rethink its economics. Every…
My conversation with Head of ChatGPT and Codex, @thsottiaux We discuss: 🔸 Why the model picker is likely going away 🔸 Why loops and graphs are a passing phase 🔸 Why most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents 🔸 OpenAI’s approach to AI safety Listen now 👇