Really good stuff. Just pinged you about this on LinkedIn.
My mix up, thinking this watch featured on Lenny’s newsletter - but he had just cross posted! To be fair, inbox did say Lenny’s. Love the AI parent framing ha
Fascinating! And I find this hopeful. I mean, what a relief to do away with the political hierarchies and never-ending meetings from corporate america. Bring it on!!
This is really interesting. Elena, thank you for writing down the observations.
A lot of it seems to be true for a company going through the rapid growth stage: the duplicative work or scope - it's just worth letting a thousand flowers bloom than spend time on aligning and de-duplicaring.
"Automate yourself out of the job" is what my first boss told me at Amazon, 15 years ago. This is super fun, when you automate and go after something new.
Politics and status games are not worth it when the pie is growing fast.
This is so Dystopian. Oh, it's never fast enough. The roles are constantly changing. We can't assign a specific role because we don't know how valuable you are in one year. I think it's fine in some sense, but it just seems like they're drinking the Kool-Aid of "AI is here to get us to move faster and just do whatever is required in the moment and use humans as tools."
The article seems to infer that somehow, human nature, politics, management, everything doesn't matter, and we all know it matters. Capitalism, socialism, everything comes back to culture and human nature and how these structures and hierarchies get built, whether or not it's defined in a label.
I don't want to be a cog in machine. Where is the human in this story? How can they have space for anything besides work?
Very informative, thoughtful and entertaining read.
Really good stuff. Just pinged you about this on LinkedIn.
My mix up, thinking this watch featured on Lenny’s newsletter - but he had just cross posted! To be fair, inbox did say Lenny’s. Love the AI parent framing ha
Loved this piece!!!
Fascinating! And I find this hopeful. I mean, what a relief to do away with the political hierarchies and never-ending meetings from corporate america. Bring it on!!
This is really interesting. Elena, thank you for writing down the observations.
A lot of it seems to be true for a company going through the rapid growth stage: the duplicative work or scope - it's just worth letting a thousand flowers bloom than spend time on aligning and de-duplicaring.
"Automate yourself out of the job" is what my first boss told me at Amazon, 15 years ago. This is super fun, when you automate and go after something new.
Politics and status games are not worth it when the pie is growing fast.
I don't understand the "We have ICs, Leads, and Heads, but titles don’t get more granular than that."
When I go to https://lovable.dev/careers it's very clear you hire for specific roles, titles, and levels. Am I missing something here?
This is so Dystopian. Oh, it's never fast enough. The roles are constantly changing. We can't assign a specific role because we don't know how valuable you are in one year. I think it's fine in some sense, but it just seems like they're drinking the Kool-Aid of "AI is here to get us to move faster and just do whatever is required in the moment and use humans as tools."
The article seems to infer that somehow, human nature, politics, management, everything doesn't matter, and we all know it matters. Capitalism, socialism, everything comes back to culture and human nature and how these structures and hierarchies get built, whether or not it's defined in a label.
I don't want to be a cog in machine. Where is the human in this story? How can they have space for anything besides work?