Santiago Suárez

Obviously, for a company of our scale and our product surface, as I am reminded often by my team, there are many priorities.

I was like, that's fair.

But this is the one.

I think it's basically a combination of two things.

One,

giving you the tools and then do, it is not optional.

And we have a very clear view of where we are and where we want to be.

We have been extremely explicit with folks about standards and expectations.

It's not going to be easy.

It hasn't been easy.

It has been easier than I thought, but we're asking our workforce the same way everyone is asking their workforce to undertake like three,

high jumps in sequence in a span of months but you know i i i send like most people do these days i send a note to the company every monday and it suddenly it became monothematic and the other thing i did was before i got conviction to push this

um i built my own stack so i got i got on my own cloud provisioned um i started playing with and i went the whole way so i was doing my own devops i was provisioning my instances i was getting my own api keys i could just really playing with the core tooling it was so fun because like my my cto and i would text at 10 p.m i was like hey this thing on amazon is breaking he's like what are you doing

I was just literally asking for DevOps style support that had nothing to do with the actual AI, but I was like, I want to build the whole end-to-end stack.

I don't want to just play, because there's a lot of now agent wrappers, right?

So they'll be like, hook all these MCPs, and you're off to races.

I was like, no, I want to build my own.

So I started from an empty EC2 instance.

And from there, we built everything.

And once I figured out, okay, if this is helpful for me at this scale, and if I'm able to do this kind of in between meetings, basically, then the entire company should be able to do this.