Everything Simon Last said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Notion Now Advises Users to Dump Data Without Worrying About Organization
“And so actually, we kind of advise people now, like, don't worry as much about organization. Just find a way to get it all piped in and like thrown in there.”
Notion Rebuilt Its Agent Framework Four or Five Times Before Launch
“It's probably the fourth or fifth time that we rebuilt that.”
Notion Will Soon Release Direct Agent-to-Agent Invocation Settings
“So I think it's actually not released yet. Releasing it like next week is in the settings for an agent, you can give it access to invoke any other agent. So you can have them just talk directly.”
Notion's Custom Agent Operates With Over 100 Distinct Internal Feature Tools
“So there's now like over a hundred tools just for all, all the crazy notion stuff.”
Notion Custom Agents Are Deployed With Zero Permissions by Default
“The thing about custom agents that is that by default, it has no permission to do anything. And then you have to explicitly granted all the permissions.”
Simon Last Runs Autonomous Coding Agents Overnight Before Going to Sleep
“So now every night before I go to bed, I'm like, okay, did I start enough agents to get them done? I get everything done.”
Notion's Meeting Notes Automatically Mention Individuals Referenced in Generated Summaries
“One thing that the meeting notes team added recently that was But I've been blowing my mind is they, we have, they made it so it actually, when it makes the summary will actually mention the people that were referenced in it. So I now get notifications wheneve…”
Notion Built Custom Markdown and SQLite APIs Specifically for AI Agents
“We created sort of a markdown dialect that looks like the default normal markdown, but it's sort of enhanced with All the notion blocks. And the models are really good at it. It works really well. So, so that's how it reads and writes the pages. And then for d…”
Simon Last Let an Autonomous Coding Agent Run for 13 Days
“My personal record is that I've had a coding agent running for, I think it was, 13 days straight without stopping. I'm just basically working through, like, tasks.”
Simon Last: Start Custom Enterprise AI Agents in Approval Mode
“The general pattern I follow is sort of, I build it as a prototype, I have it in sort of like an approval mode, where I'm sort of, you know, watching it closely, and then, but then after it runs a bunch of times, you kind of trust that it's working”
Simon Last: Notion's HR Team Is Top Adopter of AI Agents
“The people team's been amazing. They're actually one of the highest adopters of custom agents.”
Simon Last: GPT-4 Proto-Interface Sparked Notion's AI Pivot
“It wasn't until I played with GPT-IV that it became really, really real. So, you know, we, when we got access to it was sort of like a proto-ChatGPT-like interface. And my co-founder Ivan and I both got access, and it was just immediately clear, like, I would …”
Notion Integrates Slack and Google Drive Into Its Q&A Index
“As soon as we got the Notion index working, it was obvious that, oh, okay, we should index everything else as well. And so we indexed, like, Slack and Google Drive, and we, we're launching new ones on a regular cadence.”
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