The rise of the AI-native employee

Managers without vertical expertise, this is your extinction call

I’ve been at Lovable for five weeks and yeah… I’m not in Kansas anymore. This company operates on a completely different level - and as someone who’s spent my entire career in traditional tech, I’m seeing a very different pattern here that’s worth sharing.

Lovable is blowing past crazy revenue milestones: $1M ARR in just 8 days post-launch, $17M in 3 months, $60M in 6 months, and $80M ARR in just 7 months. With ~35 people. That’s not a typo. That’s the new normal - if you’re AI-native. And I don’t just mean the product is AI-native. I mean the people are.

What even is an AI-native employee?

Before Lovable, when someone said “AI-native,” I assumed they meant the product. Built with AI at it’s core. Agent workflows. GPT something-something. But after getting in the trenches here, I’ve realized: the product being AI-powered is only half the story. The real shift is how people work.

An AI-native employee isn’t someone who “uses AI.” It’s someone who defaults to AI.

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