{"podcast":{"title":"No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups","slug":"no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","podcast_index_feed_id":5990363,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/803e0244-9d0f-11ed-923a-4bb54bf77468/image/NO_PRIORS_ALBUM_and_PROFILE_PIC-01.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Conviction","episode_count":164,"summary":"At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or \"Software 3.0\" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363"},"episode":{"title":"From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last","slug":"from-coder-to-manager-navigating-the-shift-to-agentic-engineering-with-notion-co-founder-simon-last","published_at":"2026-03-12T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/from-coder-to-manager-navigating-the-shift-to-agentic-engineering-with-notion-co-founder-simon-last","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP4039354704.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP4039354704.mp3","summary":"Notion isn’t designing AI agents that just use tools. Their agents can autonomously build their own integrations, as well as write the code needed to finish a task. Sarah Guo sits down with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last to explore Notion’s rapid evolution from a simple writing assistant to a sophisticated platform for custom AI agents. Simon discusses the technical hurdles of indexing disparate data from sources like Slack and Google Drive, as well as the internal shift toward using coding agents to build Notion itself. Plus, Simon elaborates on what he sees as a fundamental transition in productivity: moving from a tool where humans do the work, to one where humans manage a swarm of agents. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @simonlast | @NotionHQ Chapters: 00:00 – Cold Open 00:05 – Simon Last Introduction 00:26 – Genesis of Notion AI 04:10 – Challenge of Semantic Indexing and Retrieval 07:16 – The Six-Month Rewrite Cycle 08:12 – Notion’s Coding Agent Era 09:44 – Impact on Team Dynamics 12:49 – Launching Custom Agents 15:39 – Notion as the ‘Switzerland’ for Models 17:33 – Designing APIs for Agent Customers 20:09 – Simon’s Personal Agentic Workflows 24:48 – Notion: Tool for Work is Now A Tool for Agents 27:28 – How Building Has Changed for Simon 29:00 – Conclusion","meta_description":"Notion isn’t designing AI agents that just use tools. Their agents can autonomously build their own integrations, as well as write the code needed to fini…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1742,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/episodes/from-coder-to-manager-navigating-the-shift-to-agentic-engineering-with-notion-co-founder-simon-last/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/from-coder-to-manager-navigating-the-shift-to-agentic-engineering-with-notion-co-founder-simon-last.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}