In Pursuit of Good Vibes: I'm Not Sure Where We're Going, but I'm Happy We’re Going There Together
summary
Nubank recounts a three‑year AI journey from failed 2023 experiments to a 2025 AI‑first declaration and a 130 million customer platform. A product operations hire named Lenisy uses AI to build automated infrastructure limit monitoring that replaces three to four engineers’ daily toil, frees those engineers for higher‑value work with no layoffs, and exposes real‑time quota data across teams. The org experiments with amorphous blob squads and democratizing engineering craft while citing an earlier AI assist that rewrote vendor queries to SQL and saved millions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction & Speaker Welcome
- 1:43Who Is Cat Swetel?
- 2:14Audience Check-In on AI & Anxiety
- 4:00Cat's Personal AI Journey 2022–2026
- 7:31Translating an AI-First Mandate
- 11:36Lenisy's Story: AI Without Engineering Title
- 17:09The Yoga Lesson in Leadership
- 20:51Access, Democratization & Good Vibes
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