Elizabeth Stone
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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How does this scale?
What does high quality look like?
What problems is this going to create for us based on
how we build and deploy something.
So I still see the nuggets of that comparative advantage.
It's just that we're able to move more fluidly in a lot of steps that normally we would have blockers on.
I still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon, even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.
It goes back to what I mentioned earlier of you still have humans who have to make sure that what we're doing makes sense.
We're solving the right problems in a way that is best for Netflix members or business stakeholders.
And that if I talk to an engineer, a data scientist, a designer, yes, they speak more languages now than they used to because they have the benefit of these AI tools.
But there's still something that is not replaceable.
when I think about the craft and how they think about what good looks like.
And that feels true across all levels.
And I still find great engineering to be scarce, great data science to be scarce, great creativity to be scarce.
So yes, some things are easier, but that hasn't dissolved in my mind.
I'm not sure that it matches exactly to functions, but I can tell you what we're seeing more of, we need more of.
We need more systems thinkers in a world with AI.
That looks a little bit different across functions, but I could play out a couple of examples.
So in our core infrastructure team at Netflix and central engineering, a lot of what made Netflix successful over time was that local teams with specific business problems could move fast to deliver.
They very often were not feeling like they needed to be on a central paved path.
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