Why they are not afraid Talking with people who work in sales, an interesting pattern emerged: they are not particularly afraid of AI. AI clearly assists the work, and the gap between those who use it and those who do not will widen. But the essence of sales is understanding
The next career is not development He decided late last year that if there was a next career, it would not be as a developer. The usual path for a career like his leads to an engineering executive seat or a lab director title, and becoming an executive is its
Four hours a day in the office, the rest spent networking, collecting data that does not exist online. Maybe that is the real AI-native daily life. What this meetup was We attended a thirty-person meetup in Gangnam with a structure unlike the usual panel talk or keynote. Four
AI that edits genes In Boston we met a researcher who builds AI tools for biology research at a life sciences institute, with published work related to gene editing, someone who lives daily at the intersection of biology and AI. Asked about the potential of AI in bio, the answer
What five years bought He spent five years at the financial management platform most used by small businesses in America. The main customers were service businesses: cleaning, landscaping, HVAC. Five years of direct contact taught him their workflows inside out. The important part: what those years built was not technical
The reason for moving from a stable org to the AI search team was clear: to survive five more years. Survival competition inside big tech He was originally on the operations side of a Google service. Stable, important work, but he grew anxious about how much it would help his
The largest, most multilingual qualitative study ever run For one week, Anthropic had its own AI interview its users. Four questions: what did you recently use AI for, if you had a magic wand what would you want AI to do, has AI ever come close to that vision, and
Every company runs at a different AI temperature The surprising part: everyone at the table works at a household-name tech company, and yet the temperature differs this much from company to company. Company A rolled Claude out company-wide and actively encourages it, wired into the messenger, the issue
Koreans are not like this only with AI. It was the same with Bitcoin, the same with real estate, the same every time a new platform opened. People were not excited because they were curious about Silicon Valley trends. The feeling of falling behind if they skipped this was already
We woke up and all 85 people we had requested were contacted, precisely. For people we had talked to before, the messages continued the earlier context. A world where AI does almost everything We needed to send LinkedIn messages to overseas buyers. We gave the agent little more than target
A PM who is closer to a mini CEO He works as a PM at a public tech company in New York, though PM undersells it: at this company the role is closer to a mini CEO, owning the P&L and running a small business unit end to
Most of the questions were about philosophy, not technology. Why choose the painful path? If the people building the future of AI are depressed, is that future okay? How the interview happened We never expected a post on Reddit to reach the United States. A journalist from an independent outlet