Jessica Fain: belief

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…Along these lines, what I wonder is, we talked about these other two kind of areas, humans are still valuable and great product leaders are still valuable deciding what to build, knowing if it's ready and awesome. I wonder how good AI will get at those things because we never thought AI would be amazing at coding and now it's 100% of code will be soon written by AI. And I've actually been building a bunch of stuff and I just find Codex and Claude Code are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, "What should I do to make this better?" And it's like, "Here's 10 ideas." And then they're like, "That is a really good idea." So I think it'll get there. People underestimate how good it'll get at these things, I think. Yeah. I do think that as ideas proliferate and as there just becomes so many ideas and so much feedback, we're going through a strategy doc rewrite. I think we have like 40 versions now because it's so easy to rev on a 15-page doc. Actually, when these decisions are happening faster, building is happening faster, the flip side of that is mistakes compound faster as well. And strategy clarity becomes so much more important to anchor people on. If you want to have an empowered EPDI organization or company, that clarity of what you believe, what are the most important problems to invest time and energy into, where we want to invest compute and dollars, that is the mechanism for letting people go and run at as fast a velocity as they're capable of. So if you have that corpus of shared beliefs that you update on a pretty fast clip, because I think that's the mode we're in, that is actually what enables teams to build the right stuff as opposed to just the idea that Claude had. I love this point because there's a lot of talk on Twitter actually just today in the PM community about PRDs are dead. And I think it's exactly the opposite, which is being very clear about what we are doing and the strategy is now the most important thing, because once you have that, then it's cool. Fire off a hundred agents and we'll go build it and launch it.…

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