Tomer Cohen: evaluation

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…That is a really interesting insight that the top performers are finding the most success, because there's always been this question, is AI going to just make people that are not amazing, more amazing, or is it going to make amazing people even more amazing? And it sounds like it's likely the latter. Yes. And in many ways, it's surprising, it's not surprising. I've seen this also when we were... It's surprising because you want everybody else to be part of this and lean in. I think top talent has this tendency of continuously trying to get better at their craft and this innate need to be at the cutting edge of how you build, and I think we're seeing this here as well. This is why I had this phrase I say with the team that if we build all those tools, will they use it? And I know right now the answer is no. It's not enough to give them the tools to use it. You have to build the incentives programs, the motivation, the examples to how you do it. They need to see other people being successful as well. And I've seen this also when we're shifting LinkedIn from a desktop company into a mobile company. It was a very similar process. It's very hard. Change management here is going to be a critical part. I think I see a lot of companies roll out their agents and just expecting companies to adopt. It doesn't work this way. Some will adopt. That tends to be your cutting edge 5% of talent that just wants new tools and they have a bias for change. But the vast majority needs to work for change management in how they do it, and that requires being a lot more thoughtful about the cultural aspect of it, which is by far from me the biggest and most important thing to do. Yeah. I want to spend time there. And it makes a lot of sense why people don't spend time here because they have so much to do. They got to ship things. Their days are already busy. You have to now carve out time to learn this new tool that'll not pay off for a while. So I get why people are like, "Okay, okay, I'll get there. I'll use it someday," but they don't. This idea of culture, when I saw you share this initially, this is the third piece of making this successful. So there's the platform of getting the code base ready for people for AI to work with. Then there's the tool, like the agents you've talked about, and then there's the culture. Is there more there that you can share of just what has actually worked in helping get people on board? One thing I heard is creating a little bit of FOMO of like, okay, only a few people can use this and you have to sign up to get access. What's worked in getting people to get on board?…

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