From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last
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Notion is pivoting from a passive workspace to an active agent orchestrator -- the platform is moving away from being just a place where humans do work to a hub where users manage a 'swarm' of agents that can autonomously build integrations and execute tasks.
“The transition in productivity is moving from a tool where humans do the work, to one where humans manage a swarm of agents.”
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The real engineering challenge lies in indexing the world's messy data -- Simon highlights that the biggest hurdle isn't just the AI models themselves, but the technical 'grunt work' of semantically indexing disparate data sources like Slack and Google Drive to give agents proper context.
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Coding agents are fundamentally changing how software itself is built -- Notion is already using its own coding agents to help build the product, signaling a shift where the role of a developer moves from writing every line of code to managing AI-driven development cycles.
“The transition in productivity is moving from a tool where humans do the work, to one where humans manage a swarm of agents.”