Fireside Chat
summary
Claim: the next 10 billion knowledge workers are agents that are agents are blind and prefer semantics, APIs, and CLIs. Concrete moves: prototype Notion AI built on GPT‑4 during a hotel‑room offsite, a coding‑agent game shipped over Christmas, a company rebuild after betting on web components before migrating to React, and a public Notion developer platform launched two months ago. Audience data point: roughly one‑tenth recognize Engelbart/Alan Kay. Design mantra: APIs first, UI last and focus on Notion developer platform.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00New York has a real summer
- 0:59From informatics olympiads to Notion
- 2:22Engelbart, Alan Kay, and the Mother of All Demos
- 5:18Rebuilding on React
- 6:55Semantics over rainbow colors
- 8:57Religious experience #1: GPT-4 in a hotel room
- 13:07Religious experience #2: the Claude Opus Christmas
- 16:25Designing for agents: APIs first, UI last
- 20:45The Notion developer platform and Switzerland of AI
- 27:31Lightning round: Refounding
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