Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…If they were exceptional, I think that's right. But I think a lot of the best engineers I've worked with have commercial instincts like Max Levchin has this on steroids. Jeremy Stoppelman, he's worked with me very closely at PayPal before he started Yelp and got promoted to be engineering director and vice president of PayPal, had commercial instincts back when he was an individual contributor. So I think there are great engineers who are technically proficient that have always understood the business building. Yeah. I think that's the ultimate unicorn is an engineer that is also very business-minded. It's going to put a premium. I think this is what ... The age of AI will put an incredible premium on that because they're not going to need a large team. You're not going to be marshaling the forces. Another example is a good friend of mine is director of engineering at Ramp. He ships as much code personally. So he has a team of about 20 people. He personally ships as much code as he used to as an individual contributor while he's managing a team of 20 because the tools are so great and he's become a leading pioneer in the usage of AI. And he's basically using AI as a second team. He's basically like, "Okay, you're the team manager. You do this, you do this, you do this, this, this together, check this out, blah, blah, blah." And I think that is definitely the future.…

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