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Sarah Sachs: belief

15 Apr 2026 Latent Space Notion’s Token Town: 5 Rebuilds, 100+ Tools, MCP vs CLIs and the Software Factory Future — Simon Last & Sarah Sachs of Notion

“Um, what’s difficult is like that market that I think right now is no man’s land of where reasoning models were six months ago, that the nano haikus, et cetera, haven’t caught up to, because now we’re just paying more for those, um, for like extra capability that we didn’t necessarily need and so are our customers.”

— Sarah Sachs

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Sarah Sachs
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belief
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15 Apr 2026
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Latent Space

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…The other thing I would say is the, um, you know, unlike a lab, we aren’t fully incentivized just for you to use as many tokens as possible. We’re actually really interested in. Giving you the right tool for the job. A lot of the time, the right tool for the job is actually just writing code and not even using agent at all. So that’s, that’s something that we’re investing in a lot is like, you know, imagine your, your agent can actually automate itself out of a job. Right. We would love if that were true. I feel very strongly about this because I don’t necessarily feel like that’s the SKUs that Frontier Labs give you. I feel like they are just getting more and more capable and more and more expensive, which is fantastic for the use cases of when people wanna do really complicated things on Notion. Um, what’s difficult is like that market that I think right now is no man’s land of where reasoning models were six months ago, that the nano haikus, et cetera, haven’t caught up to, because now we’re just paying more for those, um, for like extra capability that we didn’t necessarily need and so are our customers. Mm-hmm. And, um, labs aren’t necessarily incentivized, um, right now with how few players there are to be meeting the market everywhere. They just need to be the cheapest. They don’t need to be at value that the customer wants. Hmm.…

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