What triggered you to take such a drastic action?

Something really shifted in December in the sophistication of [AI] tools. Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s Codex 5.3 went from being really good at greenfield products to being really good at larger and larger code bases. It presented an option to dramatically change how any company is structured, and certainly ours. We have to rethink how companies run, how they're structured, how they're built. It has to be closer to building the company as an intelligence. Yeah, certainly with any company you could say that there's bloat—but that’s a function of inheriting a management structure and a hierarchy all the way back from the 1900s.

TLDR: answer remains being forward thinking about AI

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> What triggered you to take such a drastic action?

> Something really shifted in December in the sophistication of [AI] tools. Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s Codex 5.3 went from being really good at greenfield products to being really good at larger and larger code bases. It presented an option to dramatically change how any company is structured, and certainly ours. We have to rethink how companies run, how they're structured, how they're built. It has to be closer to building the company as an intelligence. Yeah, certainly with any company you could say that there's bloat—but that’s a function of inheriting a management structure and a hierarchy all the way back from the 1900s.

TLDR: answer remains being forward thinking about AI