Expensive subscribers,
At the moment, I wish to share a brand new episode with Akshay Kothari and Ryan Nystrom.
Everybody calls their AI product an “agent” however Notion’s really dwell as much as the hype. It took Akshay (Notion’s co-founder) and Ryan (AI lead) 2 years of failure to construct brokers that may create databases, reply to Slack, and extra. We had an awesome chat about their most stunning classes from constructing the very best AI brokers for work.
Watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
We talked about:
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(00:00) What it actually took to construct brokers that truly work
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(01:38) Reside demo: Watch a database construct itself in real-time
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(04:56) How Akshay writes docs by simply speaking to AI 90% of the time
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(20:15) The true distinction between AI slop and helpful AI brokers
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(34:43) Personalizing brokers with customized reminiscence and directions
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(39:59) Reside demo: Constructing a customized Notion agent for Slack
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(49:03) What Notion seems for when hiring AI-native builders
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Construction your knowledge the way in which AI fashions naturally devour it. Notion’s agent breakthrough got here when the workforce stopped making an attempt to get the AI mannequin to know their inside web page buildings and as an alternative offered every thing as markdown (a format that AI already understands) for the AI mannequin to devour.
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Focus brokers on eliminating busywork, not constructing toy demos. The turning level for Notion was “once we determined to cease constructing toy apps that appear like AI slop and as an alternative deal with really serving to you get your work executed.” Don’t chase shiny AI traits—resolve the annoying handbook duties customers really hate doing.

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