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12-FACTOR COMPANIES

Organizations shape technology and technology shapes organizations. Each wave of technology changes what it means to build and run great organizations, and AI is no different. The firm of the past was designed around the bottleneck of human execution. The firm of the future will be designed around the bottleneck of human taste and judgment. This article looks at factors organizations can adopt to be smaller, faster, and deliver outsized value to customers.

2030-SHAPED SOFTWARE

Everyone says agents will be the main users of software by 2030. Okay, so what should the product actually look like? PostHog's answer is pretty simple. Agents should do the work, while the interface helps humans approve decisions and check what changed. If a person is clicking through a screen only to perform an action, give the agent a way to do it. Keep the screens where someone needs to judge the result, resolve something ambiguous, or stop the agent before it does something dumb.

SPEEDRUNNING SOFTWARE

Building an autonomous software factory feels the same as speedrunning a game. AI made building cheap, and speeding up the software factory lets you take more shots at building things. This post looks at how Amplitude built its software factory, which helped the company 3x its PRs. The faster a software factory is, the faster you can put more ideas in front of customers to figure out what works. They allow you to run more experiments and see good ideas surface much faster.

WHAT I'D TELL MY TEAM ABOUT COMPETITION

People love to say startups die by suicide, not competition. That is wrong, especially in B2B. A lower win rate means less revenue, then cuts, worse morale, and an even lower win rate. That is why he doesn't care about 5% product improvements. A customer usually needs a painfully obvious reason to switch, like half the price or 10x the speed. Look at the deals you lost and ask what would have made the choice obvious without another sales call.

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