AI-First Company Memos

Post by ej88 » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #29

ej88 wrote: post #13

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1. execs likely have spend commits and pressure from the board about their 'ai strategy', what better way to show we're making progress than stamping on some kpis like # of agents created? 2. most ai adoption is personal. people use whichever tools work for their role (cc / codex / cursor / copilot (jk, nobody should be using copilot) 3. there is some subset of ai detractors that refuse to use the tools for whatever…

> (cc / codex / cursor / copilot (jk, nobody should be using copilot) I seem to be using claude (sonnet/opus/haiku, not cc though), and have the option of using codex via my copilot account. Is there some advantage to using codex/claude more directly/not through copilot?

Post by MattGaiser » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #17

upupupandaway wrote: post #6

I work for a large tech company, and our CTO has just released a memo with a new rubric for SDEs that includes "AI Fluency". We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer, that is being used to surveil the teams lagging on the topic. All very depressing. A friend of mine is an engineer of a large pre-IPO startup, and their VP of AI just demanded every single employee needs to create an agent using Claude. T…

This feels like a construction company demanding that everyone, from drywaller to admin assistant, go out and buy a drill.

Post by Octoth0rpe » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

ej88 wrote: post #31

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (cc / codex / cursor / copilot (jk, nobody should be using copilot) I seem to be using claude (sonnet/opus/haiku, not cc though), and have the option of using codex via my copilot account. Is there some advantage to using codex/claude more directly/not through copilot?

copilot is a much worse harness, although recently improvements in base model intelligence have helped it a bit if you can, use cc or codex through your ide instead, oai and anthropic train on their own harnesses, you get better performance

Post by tikhonj » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

debo_ wrote: post #5

whiplash451 wrote: post #3

It's so sad to see some of these companies completely fail their AI-first communication [1], when they would just get so much from "We think AI can transform the way we work. We're giving you access to all these tools, please tell us what works and what doesn't". And that would be it. [1] there was a remote universe where I could see myself working for Shopify, now that company is sitting somewhere between Wipro and…

Unfortunately at this scale, when you are this soft on the message, everyone ignores it and keeps doing what they were doing before. Carrot and stick are both required for performance management at this scale. You can argue whether the bet is worth it or not, but to even take the bet, you need a lot more than some resources and a "please".

Post by ej88 » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #35

ej88 wrote: post #31

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copilot is a much worse harness, although recently improvements in base model intelligence have helped it a bit if you can, use cc or codex through your ide instead, oai and anthropic train on their own harnesses, you get better performance

I'm currently using opus in Zed via copilot (I think that's what you're recommending?) and tbh couldn't be happier. It's hard to imagine what better would look like.