What Julie Zhuo thinks about agency

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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1. 25 Mar 2025

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

   Their wordsWelcome to the era of AI-native companies, where individual contributors (ICs) reign supreme.

   ↗The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com