From one piece The rise of HI-ICs | Elena Verna (Lovable) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026) 13 beliefs · youtube.com
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Management should be a career path, not a promotion.Their words
So, management needs to be a career path, not a promotion.
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AI's most interesting effect on organisations is probably not replacing jobs but separating impact from headcount.Their words
So, I think the AI's most interesting effect on organization is not replacing job, no matter how sensational those headlines are and how many impressions um they drive for people who just want to make waves. I think it's separating impact from head count.
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Switching between managing and individual-contributor work is nearly impossible, so people have to pick one path.Their words
You're either a manager or you individual contributor and you can do a lot of context changes in your individual role and then you can do a lot of context changes in your manager role, but switching between the two is just becomes nearly impossible. So, you have to pick a path.
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In fact, I believe that if we truly believe into this AI change that is happening in all of our lives, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because as an IC, you can drive more outcome and impact than a manager in the old system.
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So, if it's cheaper to try than to debate, make sure that when experiments are cheap, approval chains are the expensive part.
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For an individual contributor to have impact, authority has to travel with accountability.Their words
Then, the authority has to travel with accountability.
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However, our organizational designs currently gate information by design. You have all of these layers of people filtering information down to individual contributors. Well, that can be no more. You have to trust your people.
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Within about a year everyone's job will change, though people will not lose their positions.Their words
So, you don't have such a strong connection to what you're doing, especially in the next year or so when all of our jobs are going to change. You're not going to lose a position in your company, but what you're doing is going to change.
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A company that adopts AI tools without changing its organisational design misses the biggest change under way.Their words
Are you changing your organizational design underneath you in order to take advantage of all of those skills? In order to take advantage of the people utilizing those tools? Because if you don't, you're actually not taking advantage of the biggest change that is happening in our system right now.
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When the cost of building falls below the cost of coordinating, the org chart should change.Their words
When the cost of building falls below the cost of coordinating, the org chart should change.
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With AI, a builder needs exceptional craft in only one or two areas and good-enough work everywhere else.Their words
So, only one or two areas of exceptional craft are needed, and then the good enough everywhere else to get it to the point where you can learn.
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For now AI is best thought of as average intelligence, which is still very powerful to have across every specialty.Their words
I actually think of AI as average intelligence. I'm sure you will get into AGI world someday, but for now, it's still super powerful to have at your fingertips an average marketer, an average engineer, an average analyst, an average designer.
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The career ladder was built on an old constraint: that more impact meant more people underneath you.Their words
The ladder was built with an old constraint that more impact that you can have equals more people underneath you.