The funny part is that AI founder mode still ends up teaching the same old lessons about management.
You can spin up all the agents you want, but somebody still needs to give clear instructions, check the work properly, and keep the whole thing from turning into chaos.
It's very true. It's also the place where technical expertise and engineering talent still matter relative to the quality of the agents that are built and the infrastructure that is built around them, especially on the database and data lake side of things.
One of Chesky’s major points of emphasis is that technical know-how, especially on the engineering front, are enormously important, and the capacity of every member of your team to code, i.e., build applications that s critical.
Personally, I think there's part of the generalist narrative that is accurate, but I also think the wider discussion about generalism is possibly missing the point.
Wild thought on generalists vs specialists - but as a specialist, you can only hide behind AI responses for so long, sooner or later your communication skills will show up in real life.
Agreed, and I think there will become a requirement to become specialized across more domains.
To your point about the importance of how agents are directed, built, quality of prompts, et cetera, the specialist capacity enables top-quality output on that front.
The shift from managing people to managing systems is the hardest leap for most leaders to make, but it's the only one that scales now.
The funny part is that AI founder mode still ends up teaching the same old lessons about management.
You can spin up all the agents you want, but somebody still needs to give clear instructions, check the work properly, and keep the whole thing from turning into chaos.
It's very true. It's also the place where technical expertise and engineering talent still matter relative to the quality of the agents that are built and the infrastructure that is built around them, especially on the database and data lake side of things.
One of Chesky’s major points of emphasis is that technical know-how, especially on the engineering front, are enormously important, and the capacity of every member of your team to code, i.e., build applications that s critical.
Personally, I think there's part of the generalist narrative that is accurate, but I also think the wider discussion about generalism is possibly missing the point.
Wild thought on generalists vs specialists - but as a specialist, you can only hide behind AI responses for so long, sooner or later your communication skills will show up in real life.
Agreed, and I think there will become a requirement to become specialized across more domains.
To your point about the importance of how agents are directed, built, quality of prompts, et cetera, the specialist capacity enables top-quality output on that front.
Founder mode in the AI era feels less like control... and more like system design in my view