Episode

AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)

Max Schoening, head of product at Notion, describes how designers and PMs there learned to prototype AI chat interfaces directly in code, why cultivating agency matters more than fixed role definitions, and his advocacy for "malleable software" that bends to users rather than corporations. He discusses taste as a trainable skill built through iteration and feedback, argues AI is mainly accelerating software eating the world, and reflects on notion's tiny-core product philosophy.