Ethan Mollick

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Strange Loop Podcast · Ethan Mollick | The long way is the shortcut: experiments over AI playbooks · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, when we talk at senior level people like yourself in an organization, you're very competent and your time is very expensive.

So there's an entire part of an organization whose job is to filter stuff so that you get to make interesting decisions that are impactful and you use people with the right salary level and right effort level to solve problems in different ways.

Part of organizational experimentation also is about thinking about which models we use when, what tasks require us to use a lot of tokens versus not.

As soon as token burns your KPI, you're in trouble.

Part of that is about realizing that part of this is a reinvention of the organization, which is expensive, but actually leads to lower costs in the long term, and not necessarily from headcount reduction, from just thinking about token optimization.

A second piece of this is you do want different kinds of KPIs.

Like, everybody should be in charge of innovation to some extent.

I want to see new product development or new organizational form or something radically changed.

I want to see a before and after.

And I'm seeing organizations do this, right?

Like, this is not an unusual case.

It's hard to write that.

And if you're going through the normal writing process, you're in trouble.

It's kind of why the C-level needs to be all in on this to some extent.

So we're in early days, right?

I mean, one of the things that I think people are, especially technologists, are too ambitious about is organizations are slow, right?

Even if you had an all-hands emergency board meeting about AI, that takes three months to schedule, right?

And then two months afterwards for the follow-up meetings.

And then organizations don't move that quickly.

Some do, but most do not.

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