Principle · MoneyTo drive AI adoption across 32,000 engineers, Cisco guaranteed employees that if they don't use AI they will lose their job (the inverse of the usual fear), told non-adopters Cisco is the wrong place while offering full tooling and support, and gave everyone unlimited tokens to start.
Y Combinator · How Jeetu Patel Runs Cisco Like the World’s Largest Startup
Report · MoneyAll internal apps are automatically protected by Okta SSO so only employees can log in, requests are logged and auditable, secrets live in Doppler rather than code, and sensitive apps with PII or customer data cannot be accessed outside the company.
AI Engineer · Let Anyone at Your Company Ship Internal Apps with AI — Garrett Galow, WorkOS
Principle · MoneyMatt Gibiec argues that letting agents do everything without human oversight would create a messy environment and that pushing fixes to production without human approval means losing control. He recommends maintaining human-in-the-loop control over agent actions and giving the human the final decision on whether to push a fix or feature to production, reviewing the full SDLC context before deciding.
AI Engineer · Your AI Agent Has No Nervous System — Matt Gibiec, Dynatrace
Creator perspective · MoneyAbhi Arya's principle: to avoid auto mode, you don't hand your agent an API — you hand it tools that carry the overall expertise, such as the right patterns, the state, and the validators. Instead of one create step to call over and over and praying the agent assembled it right, he built tools that understood how their internal dashboard or product works.
AI Engineer · Why We Deleted Our MCP Server and Rebuilt It — Abhi Arya, Reducto
Principle · MindDr. Elissa Epel advises: when you know the effort is productive, work (muscle it); when you know there's a brick wall, let go (release it). Letting go is a wise, discerning way to mitigate stress in the right situations and at the right time. You can't muscle through everything. Huberman adds that dropping the rope (letting go of a struggle) frees up energetic resources that were being consumed by a high-demand, conclusionless effort.
Andrew Huberman · Essentials: Manage Stress & Build Resilience | Dr. Elissa Epel
Principle · MoneyThere is a huge difference between getting the whole job done versus getting everything except for the last mile — the last mile can feel worse than a non-starter. If a tool is a non-starter, the user can just do it themselves or try another route, but if it gets 99% there and then fails, it's a worse unfulfilled promise. Computer use will always work — it might be slow or cost a lot of tokens, but it will get the job done all the way.
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Lenny's Podcast · Stop planning for 2027: how OpenAI builds product 90 days at a time | Tara Sesha and Nan Yu (OpenAI)
Principle · MoneyTara Sesha says she shifted her mindset from getting it perfect a priori to shipping something and iterating as quickly and effectively as possible, because nothing compares to actual empirical evidence of seeing users try and use a product before theorizing; urgency matters more than polish when shipping AI-era products.
Lenny's Podcast · Stop planning for 2027: how OpenAI builds product 90 days at a time | Tara Sesha and Nan Yu (OpenAI)
Principle · MoneyKnowing if your agents are executing well comes down to measuring the right things: measure outcomes, not tokens. Lines of code and tokens generated are gameable metrics not associated with outcomes. Token usage is Goodhart's law in real time — engineers optimize for it and it stops being a good metric. Token leaderboards at big companies just encourage profligate spending. It's not about who spends the most on tokens; it's about who gets the highest leverage outcomes from that spend. Don't token max — measure what actually matters.
AI Engineer · The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory
ReportAfter selecting matching layers, hit paste to paste an image into all matching frames at once; pasting after a single command-click only pastes into one frame, not all matching frames.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportClick an object's position property in motion mode to create a keyframe at its current state; move the landing keyframe to around 0.4 seconds on the timeline; with the playhead at the first keyframe, drag the object to its starting position to define where the animation begins.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportAnimate shadows by scaling them up and fading them in as objects land: create a keyframe on the scale property, un-constrain scale so width can be animated independently, animate shadow scale from about 20% to 100%, and set the first keyframe's opacity to 0 and the last to 100 so the shadow fades in.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportCopy keyframes from one animated object and paste them onto other objects to give them the same animation, then stagger the animations on the timeline so objects don't all come in at the same time.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportTo create a relationship between an object and a frame, go to prototype, drag the connection, choose smart animate, and set a nice easing curve; set the interaction to on-click navigate to the target page (pizza 2).
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportMulti-edit in Figma selects matching layers across multiple frames; command-click on a gray square inside a component and return to design mode to access it.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportMotion is created by stamping a keyframe at the starting position, moving the playhead to the target time, and stamping another keyframe at the new position; a position widget appears over a selected rectangle on the canvas allowing its position to be changed while scrubbing the timeline.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
ReportUse the after delay trigger to automatically navigate to the next frame after the intro animation finishes; set the interaction animation to Smart Animate for the frame-to-frame transition.
Figma · Figma for Edu: Prototyping with animations in Figma
Principle · MoneyLore says you need to take risks and be comfortable with an 80% chance of failure, be willing to put in as much time as necessary, and that incredible work ethic combined with risk-taking is the best starting point. Being able to take risk while being comfortable failing takes things to the next level.
Foundr · From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups
Creator perspective · MoneyLore's team took a page from the Walmart and Target playbook: if the loss leader works in stores, they could afford to lose even more money online because they had far more products to sell. They stuck to the thesis that they would eventually buy diapers direct and profit from other goods.
Foundr · From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups
Creator perspective · MoneyLore explains that diapers were a loss leader for Walmart and Target, driving parents into stores to buy everything else. Online it was an even bigger loss leader because bulky diapers are expensive to ship, which is why no one had sold diapers online before.
Foundr · From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups
Creator perspective · BodyDr. Morin warns that doing several top-speed sprinting sessions per week for prevention can overexpose players who run with problematic patterns, effectively shooting them in the foot by doing too much on an unprepared body. Instead, rule number one is to work first on the running pattern so that the players are ready for the coming sprint overload. He invokes Stu McMillan's principle 'form first, load second' — you would never send athletes to weightlifting without educating them to lift correctly, and the same applies to sprinting.
Garage Strength · Why Most Athletes Train Speed Wrong w/ Sprint Scientist Dr. Jean-Benoit Morin