Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

0:00Everyone can be everything now.

0:01VMs can ship code, designers can write PR Ds, engineers can product, and there's this confusion and frustration of what is my job anymore.

0:09Any time a new technology comes along, you go through a storming phase before you go through the forming phase of things.

0:16We're in the middle of that right now.

0:18I don't think that means we should put AI back into the box and say let's not use it.

0:23If we all become builders, will we still need separate functions?

0:26I still see a craft excellence that's really important that I don't think is going away anytime soon.

0:32I still find great engineering to be scarce, great data science to be scarce, great creativity to be scarce.

0:38If you look at the early culture deck of Netflix, high agency, autonomy, paying top of market, this is what I hear constantly now from how the top AI labs operate.

0:47Netflix's culture has always been excellence as an operating system.

0:51It's a resistance to do the thing that a lot of bigger companies would do and to feel comfortable in that discomfort very often.

0:58What are the ingredients to make this happen?