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

And that's why urgency is kind of important.

But seeing a lot of really useful kinds of experiments in changing direction, right?

So let me think about what ones I could talk about publicly.

So like Colgate-Palmolive, the people who make toothpaste, they have a really cool AI lab that they've set up that works directly with the Sutter C level.

And they're doing things like having the AI auto-generate ideas from conferences and build prototypes more quickly, right?

So everything becomes quicker.

And how do you put things out in a more rapid way?

There's a lot of organizations that have found really fast changes in legacy software implementation.

So they've gone from a 10-year plan to update their COBOL infrastructure to we're doing this in six months one way or another, right?

So setting very high, almost impossible goals.

And there's a lot of other really cool stuff that I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about because I talked to lots of companies about it.

So the way to think about AI labs, right, is I think people think of them as sort of omniscient.

They're young organizations that are good at one thing, which is building LLMs.

And the second thing that they're good at then is coding.

So it is no wonder that the interfaces for coders are really good from the AI labs, or at least

if not perfect, at least imaginative in that way, because they understand this stuff.

They're all coders themselves.

So they're building the tools, they're using their tools.

What they don't understand is any other job in the universe, right?

And so they're trying, right?

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