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@roelofbotha @gradypb @blocks what happens when two DRIs want the same engineer and the world model doesn’t have an opinion

.@blocks is building what we think is the first real alternative to hierarchical coordination. For 2,000 years, humans have organized themselves in roughly the same way. AI changes what’s possible: Not a flatter org chart, but a fundamentally different information architecture, organized around a world model rather than a reporting structure. @jack and I wrote about what this looks like in practice, why it's different from past experiments, and why it may reshape how companies of all kinds organize in the coming decade.

@andrewchen would also say the “organizing agents” half will also become a product category.

@andrewchen Ritual replacements are spot on. But the faster the agent loop runs, the more expensive a misaligned objective becomes. The "organizing humans" side doesn't shrink but is higher stakes.

in a world of agents, the product role is going to split into two jobs: - one that organizes humans (stakeholders, design, eng) - one that organizes agents (prompts, evals, workflows, etc) Both will be in pursuit of offering the right products to customers, but how you get there will dramatically change. What happens to the typical product rituals? Instead of PRDs, OKRs, standups, product reviews, we'll need the equivalent for agents. Couple wild ideas here... instead of standups: the equivalent is that agents will report back to us based on run logs and anomaly flags. no one needs to say what they did yesterday, the system already did thousands of things. the question is where it broke, where it surprised you, and where it got better. Show us the patterns, the trends, the edge cases - particularly the ones the agents didn't fix automatically. the daily ritual becomes reviewing deltas, scanning failures, and deciding which ones matter. less reporting, more triage instead of OKRs: we’ll need adversarial agents that continuously monitor/grade the system and detect patterns, scoring outcomes on an hourly or daily basis. Rather than setting a quarterly goal of "increase X by 5%" and revisiting slowly -- instead, management will be able to monitor success in real-time and detect trends/patterns towards overall goals instead of PRDs: we won't need waterfall. Prototyping will rule the day, and we’ll need a living agentic loop that mediates customer feedback/ratings and what's being prioritized and built. you don’t hand it to eng, you deploy it into the agent loop. if it’s wrong, it fails visibly and you can revert. if it’s right, it produces the right output instead of product reviews: we'll need simulation systems to examine agent behavior in different scenarios. In an agentic world where UI shifts from buttons/menus to agents automatically doing things, you'll want to examine their behavior before you deploy. You rewind decisions, fork alternate paths, and see how different prompts or constraints would have changed outcomes. the review becomes interactive. less storytelling, more counterfactuals. The PM sits in the middle of this split. On the human side, still aligning taste, risk tolerance, and strategy across people. On the agent side, shaping the actual behavior of the system through prompts, evals, and feedback loops. one side is persuasion. The other is instrumentation. the best ones will collapse the gap, translating intent directly into systems that act on it. the fascinating part is that the agentic loop will run 10000x faster than the human one, and of course, you can "hire" them faster. Thus the “organizing humans” half starts to feel slow and lower impact unless it directly improves the agent loop. Eventually the PM will shift towards agents and maybe ignore the human coordination altogether...

@Steven_Hyden Hello It’s Me is too good

Patio Hall Of Fame Album.

@rdassaly he just needs content for the next album

#IndieRockUpdate: Ed Droste, vocalist of Grizzly Bear, is now a certified therapist.

@yogurttowne nobody else will be there is incredible though

@yogurttowne this was the last decent national album and I’m losing hope there’ll be another

six or seven of the best songs I’ve ever heard are on this record alone

@mattyglesias @AriMelber @dandrezner quite the spectrum

Really glad to have the Substack blurbs feature now up and running, I feel like the @AriMelber and @dandrezner endorsements basically sum it all up. slowboring.com

@Danchaon Degenerative AI

uh-oh

@jmwind I remember playing a round at Monarch Bay and, on the back nine, I needed to call into an analyst call just in case I needed to chime in about my purview of work. It was some of the best golf I’ve ever played… and likely because I wasn’t concentrating on golf at all.

I’m playing in a golf tournament soon. I have too many swing thoughts, get tense, and play worse than usual. Last year I came in last. Any tips?

@petergyang Olive Kitteridge - Season 1, Episode 4

What's a 10/10 TV episode that you'll recommend to anyone?

Can I make a bet?

aaaand newyork.sbnation.com/2011/5/28/2195…

SHU always had a penchant for UConn upsets 😏

The great Jeremiah Green. My friend, bandmate, and the most creative musician I ever met.

@AbelowRob How do you measure music’s value?

If Spotify paid 100% of revenue to artists, it would be $0.0057 per stream. Happy now? Focus on new models that increase fandom, connection & music's value.

@Scholars_Stage It’s the suit