Sarah Sachs: belief

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…Yes. It’s, that’s changing for sure. I think every software engineer in notion this summer went through like this, um, sheer, um, one of our engineering leads of the company called it, like every software engineer is going through the, the, uh, identity crisis that every manager goes through, where all of a sudden they realize their ability to write code is less important than their ability to delegate in context switch. And I think that is a transition out of being a software engineer. But yeah. Yeah, there’s a critical difference to being a manager, which is that like, it is actually very deeply technical. The problem, you know, humans are very like, like, like fuzzy and you can’t like treat a team of humans like a, like a rigorous system where like, you know, prs like, like flow through and can be in like a block status and then what happens when they’re blocked, right. With a set of agents, you actually can do that. And, and, and I think it’s actually, there’s a lot of interesting technical rigor that that goes into that it’s like it’s a technical design problem. Ultimately. Alsesio: What is the design of the software factory that you’re building? Yeah, I mean, I think we’re. Trying a lot of different things. I mean, ultimately you want to design a system that requires as little human intervention as possible, but like still maintaining the in variance that, that you care about. So yeah, we’re exploring a lot different ideas there. I mean, I think I could talk about a few things I think are important there. Like, one thing I think is really important is, um, having some kind of like specification layer you can just commit marked on files. Mm-hmm. That works pretty well, but…

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