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Published · transcript-backedSarah Sachs: evaluation
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
“I think there’s like two different versions. So one is like, we just have a, a, a solid bench of senior engineers that come and go on what we call the Simon Vortex and Productionizing what we built, right?”
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- Sarah Sachs
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- evaluation
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- 15 Apr 2026
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- Latent Space
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…Yeah. Do you believe in internal hackathons for this stuff? I think there’s like two different versions. So one is like, we just have a, a, a solid bench of senior engineers that come and go on what we call the Simon Vortex and Productionizing what we built, right? Because when you’re in the Simon Vortex, the velocity is super high. The direction changes daily, and it’s meant to be like the equivalent of a SC Works lab. We don’t need to do hackathons for that. We need to have senior engineers that we trust to come in and out of those projects. For instance, like management boundaries are really loose. Like you report to him, but you work for her right now. Yeah. That’s something that when we hire managers, it’s important they don’t care about because we tend to form more structures. Yeah. Don’t be too territorial.…
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