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How Superhuman Built AI Into a 100ms Product | Loïc Houssier

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Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering
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May 22, 2026
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Summary

Loïc Houssier, VP of Engineering at Superhuman (the email client Grammarly acquired for $825M in July 2025), explains how his team retrofitted AI features into a product whose entire brand promise is sub-100ms speed. He breaks down the model-routing strategy, the eval framework his PMs own, and why his team auto-drafts every reply but refuses to auto-send any of them.