Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…You don't. And in fact, I have a Mac mini over here. It's very classy. It doesn't have the lobster headband. It has a piece of painter's tape on which I've scribbled Polly and Crew. And so if you haven't watched my How I AI episode with Jesse Genet, she's the one that got my mental model really unlocked around separate machines. And her concept and my concept now is if I'm okay with every agent on the machine occasionally going into each other's space, occasionally going into each other's tools, occasionally reading each other's docs, they can all live on the same machine. So you know what? I don't necessarily want Sam the salesperson looking in GitHub, it's not his job, but it doesn't cause me any heartache as an employer if my salesperson has access to reading GitHub. Not a big deal. And so they can all live on the same machine. But Finn, for example, my family agent, I'm going to move to his own machine. He has no business knowing what's going on in my work, so I don't need him in there. And I'm going to add my personal email address, which I haven't added so far in this workspace, and he's going to live physically partitioned from the rest of that team. Just like people walk around with their personal phone and their work phone and they say, "These are just different things that I do different work in," and keep those physically partitioned so that they literally cannot cross boundaries. Okay. So essentially they're just sharing the same computer, they're running it in parallel sometimes and different times, they're just living on the same computer. Similar maybe to... I don't know, probably your metaphor of the assistant, multiple assistants using the same computer, maybe not as helpful, but in theory it's like, "Okay, if they could just be in the same place and use the same computer and share, that's fine. " Again, let's go back to Slack, you have your Slack workspace and it has all the channels in which you do your work, and then if you're a nerd like me, you have a family Slack channel and you add your spouse in there and you create channels for finance, or I'm really software pilled over here. But, again, it's just thinking about where do you have that natural separation of information access, tool access, and a physical device is the hardest way, most clear boundary between those things.…

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