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AI favours tiny teams of high-agency individual contributors with blurred roles, and the coordinating manager is not needed until it is time to polish.

Drawn from what Julie Zhuo said

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agency Acting on the world rather than waiting: what it does for work, whether it can be learned, and whether AI widens or takes it.

team size How many people a thing needs, and what the extra ones cost: headcount, coordination, and the small-team claim.

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

Who should design software, and how?under our view: The maker should work in the medium and shape it rough: build the thing, not a picture of it Why does agency matter?under our view: Agency, more than ideas or experience, is what makes work excellent

What Julie Zhuo actually said

  1. Julie Zhuo Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product…
    Welcome to the era of AI-native companies, where individual contributors (ICs) reign supreme.

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