Summary

  • Alex Rees went from being a writer at Wired to spending two days vibe-coding at Notion, a tech startup that uses AI to write some of its code

  • At Notion, AI engineering is increasingly commonplace and helps streamline the building of new features for the app

  • Humans still ultimately make the final call on coding and are implicitly trusted to ensure safe and high-quality outputs

  • In the future, AI might augment rather than replace human engineers, though Notion is currently in a phase of rapidly onboarding AI coders instead of human coders

By Lauren Goode

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