Levie: Domain experts, not generalists, benefit most from AI tools
Aaron Levie · Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie · Sep 24, 2025 · at 32:02
Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, discusses how domain knowledge acts as a multiplier when working with AI coding and research tools.
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“This is this really counterintuitive thing where, and you've talked about specialization on the last one is like it, the biggest gains of AI go to people who have some degree of expertise in an area to know what is actually true. What is not going to work? What should I integrate from the output of this AI? You know, like, what are the two percent of things that maybe are hallucinations or, you know, took the data in the wrong direction? If you don't have a deep understanding of your particular space or field or domain, you aren't able to then have the right judgment to make all of those decisions. So I think the experts just get more powerful in this world.”
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