Nathaniel Whittemore
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48,511 appearances
192 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3d ago
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Now I should note that I don't think that this is in any particular order.
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In fact, you can very much tell that this is not AI generated, as it reads much more like a stream of consciousness than frankly most of the content that you're used to seeing these days, which is kind of a breath of fresh air.
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First feature of an AI native company is to blueprint every process.
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To create, in Alex's words, a function-by-function process blueprint of the entire business.
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Now I said I wasn't gonna disagree much, and I'm not exactly going to disagree here, but this is one area where, although I don't disagree with doing this, I think the reasoning behind it for a lot of companies is actually leading them down the wrong path.
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Some of the reasons that it's valuable to blueprint processes, in other words, to map out how work actually gets done, is that a lot of that information right now lives locked inside people's heads.
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There are a lot of nuances and edge cases that people have been handling on their own forever, and which are perhaps transmitted person to person through random spoken meetings in the hall, or side chats on Slack, that don't ever find their way into actual operating manuals.
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That puts the AI
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And agents that you're bringing in to assist with the work at a disadvantage because they're recreating things from the ground up.
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And so having better maps of how work currently gets done is an incredibly valuable piece of context as you redesign your organization around AI and agents.
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So all that part I agree with.
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Where I get concerned is around an inherent assumption of process mapping that I see pretty often.
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The assumption is that agents are
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to do things the same way that humans do.
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I think that that's very unlikely to be true.
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And in fact, I think artificially constraining agents to do things along the pattern of an old workflow is in many cases the wrong approach.
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As opposed to, for example, giving them the goal and articulating the guardrails of what they can and can't do and letting them figure it out from there.
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Now again, that doesn't make process mapping not valuable, but we have to understand and prepare for the reality that the best way to do something in the future will not necessarily just look like an efficient version of the way that we did it in the past.
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Feature number two of an AI native company is highly uncontroversial, and that is to give everyone a daily driver, i.e., everyone in the organization gets to use a daily driver harness such as Grokbot, Claude Co work, or ChatGPT at work.
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Now, what's interesting here is that nine months ago, ten months ago, when you saw the term daily driver, you would have assumed you meant just access to a frontier model.
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