17 korrents from this recording
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Their wordsAnd so actually being prolific and being um more like empirical is way more important than being um like maybe more academic or theoretical.
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Their wordsAnd what that means is the thinking you need to do is being as pointed as possible about what your core hypothesis is. And that hypothesis definition is the most important thing.
0:09:27 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut the core of it has always been about what is like the most essential question you need to ask about your product. Like what is the thing that will determine whether your product works or doesn't work?
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Work will increasingly look like steering rather than rowing, with agents doing the rowing.
Their wordsI do think that increasingly the future of work will look more like steering than rowing in the sense that there will be agents that you'll you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the right direction and pointing it in the right direction.
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People may underrate the power of intuition and of deciding what they want the future to be.
Their wordsI think sometimes that we underrate like that power of like intuition or even um sort of like positive like determinism of what we want the future to be like.
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Their wordsIdeally, work feels like a multiplayer game where all of us together are getting stuff done, steering our agents as our agents continue to take care of more and more of those like rowing tactical tasks.
0:19:47 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsbut a lot of it is also just really tactical like data access like cloud infrastructure and reliability pieces that feel um yeah, they feel much more prosaic than some of the the broader intelligence questions, but matter in some ways just as much for end effectiveness.
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Their wordsYour ambitions are no longer limited by like what you're capable of executing yourself, what you're capable of communicating.
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Their wordsUm, part of your job now is to elevate everyone's ambitions and say, "Actually, isn't the possibility ceiling meaningfully higher?"
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Their wordsYou fail if you build for where the models are now. You fail if you build for where you think the models will be in a year. Like both outcomes are equally wrong.
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Their wordsBut I think what's been really compelling and interesting about this era and this product experience has been getting the product in the hands of users when you have so much conviction that hey it's transformative like is way better than perfect and that urgency and that uh introduction of that product is is so important.
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Their wordsI think humans will continue to be most valuable as a certainly as a um like an entity of accountability.
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Their wordsUm I also think the human brain continues to be valuable in like how we care for each other and relate to one another.
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Their wordsI think you should use the models as much as possible for writing as reporting and in as much as you think with writing as I really do and I think a lot of people do you should not use it you shouldn't replace your thinking with it
0:56:39 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI have like results where we tried this, we ran an AB, here's like the results. This is why I think we should like go in this direction. That is a way better communication tool than like the the doc itself.
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Their wordsBut knowledge work is different in that I can't simply look at the deck in the end and see the numbers. Oh, it's like 90% success or whatever in the deck and actually believe that. I really need to think about the process and the inputs and the reasoning and how it went along the way.
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Their wordsIt is exactly what I think the future should be which is people should make software that exactly meets their and their friends needs.