Noam Segal: evaluation

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…Man, there's so much to talk about with all this, but let me point out a couple things as I look at this and then we can move on to the next takeaway. One is just, it's interesting that sales and PM are the least bad at don't get into this role. That's interesting. I wouldn't have expected that. Salespeople not as scared about the future of their role. PM. Interesting. That's a big audience here. Not as scared. As you said, research, design, the most don't do this. As a researcher, you touched on this a little bit, but I'm just curious, how does it feel seeing this result? It's tough. I think the research community has lived with a lot of concerns and trauma and anxiety over the years around having a seat at the table, around finding meaning in our work, around topics like the democratization of research and other people taking on our roles and eventually replacing us. It definitely hurts a lot to see this. I think there's a very important role that research needs to play in the future of building products. I think that as this technology progressive, we should become even more thoughtful about what we build rather than less thoughtful. I've heard the narratives around it's so cheap to build, just build a thousand prototypes and see what works. I think you've heard this in a recent conversation as well. I would suggest that we're just going to get even more burnt out that way, I would not recommend that approach personally. I think research has a very, and design, has a very important part to play in raising the ceiling of what's possible. Whereas AI has mostly lowered the bar, but it hasn't raised the ceiling. And I can also tell you that PMs being somewhat more likely to recommend their roles, even though they're not likely to recommend their roles, does actually make sense to me. It's more of a generalist role, I would claim, than some of these other roles. And this is the era of the generalist, if you would ask me, the AI era. I'm the most surprised by sales and go-to-market because if we are indeed in some sort of SaaSpocalypse, which I don't personally believe we are, but it's been said, then I don't think sales and go-to-market people should be feeling too great about recommending their roles. But maybe they believe that sales at this point cannot be done by AI. Yeah.…

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