Ethan Mollick

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673 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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What if I give them an impossible task that you have two weeks to replicate our code base that we spent three years building?

That might fail.

That might succeed.

But you're going to learn something as a result.

So discipline experimentation is also important.

I mean, there is a J curve of productivity, famously for any technology.

At first, your productivity drops as you learn how to use it.

Then it goes up afterwards.

You have to ride through the J curve.

And a lot of organizations don't have the willingness to do that.

Yeah, I've realized I've made enemies with IT departments everywhere, and my computer stopped working.

So I want to say that title was not my choice, right?

The Economist made the title.

But the point is actually real, which is it's not just IT.

Legal, other things, they're risk reduction organizations, right?

So there's two things.

They see AI as a source of risk, which it is.

And their job is to make sure that you're not exposed to risk.

And that's their incentive.

So, I mean, IT departments would really be happy if no one had keyboards.

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