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Taylor: AI agents fundamentally invert UX by handing agency directly to customers
“If you think about a modern website or mobile app it's essentially, you've created a directory of functionality from which you can choose. But the main person with agency in that is the creator of the website. Like, what are the universe of options that you ca…”
Taylor: Bureaucracy accumulates when companies add well-intentioned processes after every error
“The root of bureaucracy is often when something goes wrong, companies introduce a process to fix it. And over those, like sequence of 30 years, the layered sum of all of those processes that were all created for good reason with good intentions end up being a …”
Taylor: Removing bureaucracy requires top-down leadership because managers lack incentives to cut process
“Often mid-level managers don't get credit for removing process. They often are held accountable for things going wrong and I think it really takes top-down leadership to you know, remove bureaucracy”
Taylor: Every engineer at Sierra uses Cursor for code generation
“Every single engineer at CIRA uses a cursor, which is a great product that Basically integrates with the IDE, Visual Studio Code, to help you generate code more quickly.”
Sierra founders use OpenAI o1 Pro to critique company strategy
“Clay and I use the O-one pro mode for, like, criticizing our strategy at CIRA all the time.”
Bret Taylor uses GPT-4o to refine prompts for slower reasoning models
“I often, with the reasoning models, which are slower, will use a faster model first, GBT-IV-O, to refine my prompts.”