Sherwin Wu: belief

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…And who would you put on this tiger team? Is it like engineer-led, do you find in your experience? Is it a cross-functional sort of team? Yeah, it's interesting. So also a lot of companies don't have software engineers. And so the pattern I've seen is it tends to be these like software engineering adjacent, like basically technical people, but are not software engineers. I think those are the ones who tend to get most excited around this. It's like maybe the support team operations lead who doesn't code, but loves using these tools and is like an Excel wizard or something. And so it's like technical adjacent or like coding adjacent and pretty technical. Those are the kinds of people I've seen in these companies who just really light up and get excited around this. And you can usually build a team around that. But yeah, it's like oftentimes not software engineers. Software engineers I think will understand this, but not every company has software engineers. It's actually kind of a rarity. They're hard to find, they're expensive. And so it's these other types of folks. What I'm hearing is the anti-pattern is top-down, this very, the CEO found an exec team just like, "We are going to go AI-first. We're going to lead into AI. Everyone's going to be judged on their performance using AI tools, how much your productivity is increasing thanks to AI." And with that being just top-down and not creating a team that is bottom-up, spreading the gospel, you find that doesn't work.…

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