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Satya Nadella: The Real AI Roadblock Isn't Tech, It's Change Management "Change management is a real rate limiter. You're taking the means of production and saying, 'We're gonna change everything in the way we work.'" — @satyanadella with @garrytan
Eric Schmidt: The 'Agentic Revolution' Is Coming "You're gonna have an agentic revolution where agents are connected to solve business processes, government processes, and so forth."
Eric Schmidt: What Happens When We Have Millions of Polymath AIs? "What happens when we have millions and millions of polymaths? The greatest scientists saw a pattern in one area of thinking that they could apply to a completely unrelated field." — @ericschmidt
Eric Schmidt: Countries Must Automate Everything or Fall Behind "The most likely scenario, at least in the next decade, is it's a national emergency to use more AI in the workplace to give people better paying jobs and create more productivity."
Eric Schmidt: The Fastest Learner Wins In AI "The fastest mover is the fastest learner in an AI system. If my learning slope is this, I'm essentially unstoppable because my learning advantage is too great."
Patrick Collison: API Design Shapes Your Business Strategy "If I was to do everything at Stripe again, the thing we could have done differently would be to have spent even more time on APIs and data models."
One of the clearest arguments for design I’ve ever heard: “The strong version of Conway’s Law is that it shapes your strategy and business outcomes.”
Patrick Collison: API Design Shapes Your Business Strategy "If I was to do everything at Stripe again, the thing we could have done differently would be to have spent even more time on APIs and data models."
AI won't fix everything magically - it'll fix everything through relentless iteration and acceleration. The magic is in the momentum.
Patrick Collison: AI Won't Magically Fix Everything "There's some panglossian view that AI will just magically solve all the problems. I don't think that's true and in as much as we have evidence to date, I don't think that's been the track record."
Patrick Collison: AI Won't Magically Fix Everything "There's some panglossian view that AI will just magically solve all the problems. I don't think that's true and in as much as we have evidence to date, I don't think that's been the track record."
great abstractions are incredibly hard but also incredibly valuable
Patrick Collison: API Design Shapes Your Business Strategy "If I was to do everything at Stripe again, the thing we could have done differently would be to have spent even more time on APIs and data models."
APIs & data models are the artifacts derived from a clear thesis. Building one is a forcing function to codify your thesis in its most precise form. It's less about the API but more about having a sharp understanding of your users & product.
Patrick Collison: API Design Shapes Your Business Strategy "If I was to do everything at Stripe again, the thing we could have done differently would be to have spent even more time on APIs and data models."
As always - you are your own blocker. AI mandates new workflows, new focus areas, sometimes even new roles and org structure. Change is hard, but ignoring its necessity can be lethal
Satya Nadella: The Real AI Roadblock Isn't Tech, It's Change Management "Change management is a real rate limiter. You're taking the means of production and saying, 'We're gonna change everything in the way we work.'" — @satyanadella with @garrytan
Stripe Founder Patrick Collison: Here's How I Use AI "I use LLM chat tools a lot. Mainly for answering factual or empirical questions I'm curious about. I wish they were useful for writing, but I usually end up dissatisfied with the writing that they produce."
Patrick Collison on How Stripe Plans to Use AI "We really care about what we call at Stripe Craft and Beauty and we want our software to be well designed and pleasant to use not only in the superficial sense, but also in the deep it works very well sense."
Satya Nadella's 3 Rules For Hiring Leaders "I'm looking for people who bring clarity in uncertain times, create energy, and solve over constrained problems. They take an over constrained problem and figure out how to unconstrain it."
Patrick Collison and Cursor Founder Michael Truell on the Future Of Programming "I think it might be something else. Programming languages actually change. They can start to get a little bit less formal. They can start to get a little bit higher level."
Patrick Collison On Stripe's Insane Uptime Record "Stripe's critical API availability last year was 99.99986%, which is forty four seconds of unavailability through the whole year. We believe that is the best in the industry."
Patrick Collison on AI's Risk of Creating More Bad Software "There's obviously a concern with AI that it leads to the creation of more slop and more kind of crappy things but not more of the best things."
Replit CEO: Don't Just Learn Code—Learn to Create with AI "I wouldn't put learning to code as the top thing. I would put learn to make things. Learn to make things with code. Learn to make things with video. Learn to make anything with AI." — @amasad
Cursor Founder: Programming Languages Will Become Less Formal "I think there is a future version of the world where programming languages actually change. And they can start to get a little bit less formal. They can start to get a little bit higher level." - @mntruell