Transcript of ‘How Notion Cofounder Simon Last Builds AI for Millions of Users’

The transcript of AI & I with Simon Last is below.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:01:57
2. How AI changes the way we build the foundational elements of software: 00:02:28
3. Simon’s take on the impact of AI on data structures: 00:10:07
4. The way Simon would rebuild Notion with AI: 00:13:05
5. How to design good interfaces for LLMs: 00:23:39
6. An inside look at how Notion ships reliable AI systems at scale: 00:28:22
7. The tools Simon uses to code: 00:35:41
8. Simon’s thoughts on scaling inference compute as a new paradigm: 00:38:16
9. How the growing capabilities of AI will redefine human roles: 00:49:10 
10. Simon’s AGI timeline: 00:50:28

Transcript

Dan Shipper (00:01:59)

Simon, welcome to the show.

Simon Last (00:02:00)

Hey, thanks for having me.