Episode

The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, discusses how AI is reshaping product teams into smaller generalist pods, why taste and design judgment remain hard to automate, and how creators and authentic points of view will matter more as synthetic content grows. He reflects on Instagram's algorithm misconceptions, the trade-offs behind chronological versus ranked feeds, past mistakes like the late pivot to Reels, and how he sets screen-time boundaries with his kids while teaching them to vibe code.