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- The eternal complement: genius machines, boring work The first essay in OpenAI's "next economy" series argues that ideas and execution are complements. AI first makes execution cheap and taste scarce, but once AI produces good ideas on its own, execution may become scarcer than ever, and superintelligence may spend most of its time being the bureaucracy. I checked it against my own notes: the bottleneck is already visible inside companies, AI as bureaucracy is not AI imitating a bureaucracy, and depth domains move long before width domains.
- Making people care about your startup: three archetypes Kristen Lowe on Lenny: building is easy, being cared about is hard. Your why maps to Problem, Insight or Vision, and that drives voice and channels.
- RingCentral Goes AI-Native: From Challenge to PMO OS OpenAI case study: RingCentral gave ChatGPT Work and Codex to thousands of staff, and its PMO turned AI workflows into a program-management operating system.
- Whatnot's CPO: "We regret that the PM function exists" Whatnot CPO Tom Verrilli on Lenny: fewer, more senior PMs staffed to problems, not headcount. AI makes validation cheap, so product theater can't hide.
- How coding agents reshape engineering, product, and design Coding agents made writing code strangely easy. What happens to EPD roles? From "the PRD is dead" to a new split: builders vs reviewers.
- AI made people faster. Why didn't the company get stronger? Everyone is on ChatGPT; results did not take off. A 130-year-old story about electric motors is still the most honest picture of how AI lands inside a firm.