AI agents 8
- An AI agent is only useful while a specific human cares about it; sever that personal connection and it stops being useful.
- Within about a year everyone will have at least one agent they talk to and offload work to.
Dan Shipper
Co-founder and chief executive of Every, the AI-focused writing and software studio behind Cora, Spiral and Proof.
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What Dan Shipper says most about
AI and jobs 7
- The mass unemployment some AI CEOs describe is not going to happen.
- Most knowledge work will move inside a coding-agent environment like Codex or Claude Co-work, which becomes the operating system for email, documents and everything else.
product management 5
- Executing a roadmap and staying at the AI frontier are opposed ways of working, so asking the same people to do both is very hard.
- Most customers are unfamiliar with frontier AI and look to the companies building their products to tell them what to do.
coding agents 4
- Most knowledge work will move inside a coding-agent environment like Codex or Claude Co-work, which becomes the operating system for email, documents and everything else.
- Codex, not Claude Code, is the right daily driver right now.
design 3
- On a labs team the feedback loop between making something and knowing whether it is good matters most, and the tightest loop is building for yourself.
- Designers have stopped handing work off — they open the pull request themselves, which changes how companies build.
innovation 3
- A labs team should expect to throw away about 90% of what it makes.
- Building something that disrupts your own product is an old idea that is only now starting to work, because AI lets teams move so fast.
SaaS 3
- SaaS stocks are a buy right now.
- Agents will increase the number of users of SaaS rather than get rid of it.
Anthropic 2
- Most knowledge work will move inside a coding-agent environment like Codex or Claude Co-work, which becomes the operating system for email, documents and everything else.
- Codex, not Claude Code, is the right daily driver right now.
team size 2
- AI makes a labs team of a single person possible.
- In the AI age, an experimental team should probably be one or two people at most.