Rituals & skills in the age of AI
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Company notes: Koda is now part of Grammarly and teams adopt Dory and Pulse to remove groupthink; weekly Launchpad meetings, karaoke and spelling bees persist as cultural rituals. Claim: AI turns individual contributors into managers earlier, overseeing many agents rather than coding alone. Built systems: agents that scan Slack Jira and Koda to report OKR progress, separate agent teams for work and for evaluation, and experiments with chain‑of‑reasoning prompts to trace intent.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 2:14Rituals at Grammarly
- 8:15What makes a great manager
- 10:58What kind of managers will be most effective
- 13:52Lessons from last year
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