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Ryan Nystrom states AI agents require software engineers to act as systems architects. A custom agent generated a complete feature and submitted a pull request with a preview link in 20 minutes.
Software engineers act as systems thinkers who build verification loops to check the correctness of automated code changes.
“I view our job as like engineers evolving into like systems thinkers and architects and not and not even just necessarily writing like the spec and thinking about the behaviors but most importantly is like the verification loop like is it a like how should it verify correctness of this feature um or this change.”
Automated meeting summaries eliminate preparation time and let teams review generated updates right as a call starts.
“I can basically work up until like the minute of our meeting without having done a bunch of like prep. And then we all get on a video call and we look at this screen and we're like, 'Okay, here's what we need to talk about.'”
From Notion's 'Hot Potato' AI Agent Cuts Standup Prep to Zero
An internal agent built a tab block feature in under 20 minutes. The system provided a pull request link and a preview environment for the entire implementation.
“A friend of mine, um who's a notion fan text me. He's like, 'Hey, I like the tab block that you built.'”
From Notion's AI Agents Write and Fix Code in 20 Minutes Flat
“10:40 10:51 started the implementation and then another 10 minutes later it replies with a pull request link and a preview URL because we like we do the um like preview environment stuff and it like built the entire thing.”
From Notion's AI Agents Write and Fix Code in 20 Minutes Flat
“If I've got a CI loop that takes an hour to run, that, your agent's just going to sit there and spin for like an hour waiting for results to like do something. If it takes three minutes to run, like holy crap, how much more stuff are you you as a human and then especially as your like little swarm of agents going to be able to get done?”
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