Jacob Lauritsen

“It's actually something that we had to sort of educate people on in Sweden. And in Europe, I think it's, people are just not used to the venture thing. They don't know how to value equity the same way.”

“Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think that's right. The job of assist, of a, of an engineer is changing from typing a bunch of code to sort of one layer above it, which is what does the system look like?”

“No, I don't buy that. I think It's, to me, it's a question of how quickly can I solve problems? Am I the person that can solve the problems that we have right now the fastest, or can someone else solve them faster than me?”

“No one in the 800 pound gorilla is extremely excited to be there.”

“So essentially I don't have any priors coming into how to build an engineering org.”

“Engineers. For sure. Because the models they change all the time, they get better all the time, but if you have really good engineers, you can build a system that exponentially improves, and that's worth a lot more.”

“I think the other thing that engineers are doing more and more, which is an explicit role with us soon, which is like kind of the meta engineering of making agents really effective.”

“No one wants to look at the, all the lines of code. It's like, what's important is, what are the, what's the impact on systems architecture? What's the impact on systems design, stability security boundaries? How does it sort of take our system in the right di…”

“In the US, people are generally less risk averse, so like, they'll, they'll be ready to jump on a lot of things to test. I think in Europe, people are more risk averse. People in Europe, and I'm super generalizing now, but I think Generally are more, I don't w…”

“I think the internal AI systems role thingy for enterprises, I think IT will, can have like a flowering moment here and, you know, go from being internal IT that's like setting up your computers and whatever to maybe have a system that's building a tons of int…”

“If it's a shallow app, and it requires a lot of customization from you, maybe you just build it. That's probably actually the right thing to do. If it's a very deep one, there's just too much stuff for you to build, and it's not viable for you to do.”

“I think senior management is extremely difficult to hire for. No yeah, or like engineering directors, engineering managers within, yeah, within product and engineering, yeah. Maybe that's always been difficult, but I think it's because we only have really tech…”

“Having a leaderboard, a lot of people say this, get a leaderboard and bring up token usage at performance reviews, And that leads to token maxing, which is people just burn tokens just to look good. That's a really stupid way to do anything.”

“So it's good if PMs do some amount of vibe coding to, like, show very high fidelity, here's a prototype, this is exactly what it looks like.”

“The way that we have engineering teams is relatively small teams, let's say six people, a PM and an engineering manager. The engineering manager is super technical, you know, spends most of their time coding.”

“The current shape of an ID will die. Yes. I think we, I don't know what the new, the next ideas, but it's not reading lines of code. It's maybe it's graphical, honestly. Like maybe it's the systems, the architecture that you look at and you review and you plan…”

“We have a developer experience team. Relatively new. Again, a mistake I made. I should have staffed that earlier.”

“Current review tools are not good enough. I think we need something new. I keep telling people at all events that I'm at, like, if you're gonna do a startup, please do something that solves the review thing.”

“If I have to put my, I want to say the lower number let's say two 70.”

“I don't want to say infinite, but for me, it's a question of opportunity cost. We're in a competitive environment. There's so many things that we can do, and the cost of not doing it is extremely high. It almost outweighs any sort of token cost.”

“Obviously they don't have enough compute. They can't train their own models. They probably have to train their own models. It's I just think it's a shame that the industry is, is vertically integrated in that way.”

“I'd rather miss my number and have A players than hit it with B players, because I think as soon as you introduce players, as soon as you have people that you don't trust or that the team doesn't trust, the A players won't stick around.”