Evan Smith

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503 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, that's definitely stayed true.

And then what's happened since then, I guess this was March of last year, we have injected folks into the company that have really, really, really deep domain expertise in some of the areas we're working in.

You know, trade, customs compliance, logistics, procurement.

And with the advent of agentic design and agentic coding...

one of the things we're really leaning into is, okay, how do we get to the right product judgments faster, right?

So, whereas it took kind of founder level conviction and synthesis to make some of these big bets before, that's still true, but what's been really cool over the last six months is, as we've brought in these like really deep domain experts, is we can take kind of a traditional product design, product management, discovery function, pair it with deep domain expertise,

including with customers, but get to the right product judgment so much faster.

And then the execution of that workflow or the kind of build out of the modeling steps is also much faster in this kind of new way of coding and developing.

We have to move fast because the world's changing really fast.

So that is true and it's probably going to stay true.

And what's different from a year and a half ago is you now have this agentic product development lifecycle that just gives you so much more velocity and the ability to get to the right place faster.

Yeah, it's getting pretty psychedelic.

It's all blending together.

My favorite has been watching some of our engineers lean in on design.

And you're seeing it kind of in all directions.

But yeah, there's definitely a convergence of those functions where –

A designer can ship code.

A product manager can design and prototype.

A PM can ship code, just handle tickets themselves.

Engineers can get on a design game.

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