Corey Knowles

I think you really have to embrace AI in the sense that I think if you're kind of just, you know, hiding in your cave and you're like, I don't care about AI, they're going to come find you sooner or later.

So you might as well embrace it, I think.

Yeah.

And I think the best way to embrace it is in a safer guardrails-driven manner, if you will, rather than a, let's vibe code and see what happens and let's give everyone access to our production databases, because if we ruin that, your production database is probably going to get dropped by Replit if that happens.

Yeah.

I would say that.

I think you have to embrace it because if you don't embrace it, stuff like that's going to happen.

But by you leading the charge, it can be a lot safer, if you will.

Yeah, I'll just have one thing that I'll think a little bit more, but the one that comes to mind is I think what Mike Maple said, which is agency.

And specifically, I think especially because today, at least AI and LMS are low agency, you know, like we talked about chat, like it doesn't do anything for you.

You have to ask them to do something.

those that have high agency have more of an edge because they can leverage, you know, something low agency, you know, and they can push it more if that makes sense.

Yeah.

That was a key one.

And when I look at some of our customers that, again, that have had the most success in their company, the ones that have gotten promoted multiple times in multiple years, it is, I would characterize it as agency or curiosity maybe is another one, sort of this embracing of what's next.

So it's, you know, I would argue that is the probably number one quality.

I think maybe a number two is around some level of technical proficiency.

Yeah.

Because I do think that some level is required.

Like if you don't know what a database is, if you don't know what an API is, if you can't think of data in like a row by column basis or level, I think that you might get left behind, honestly.