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David Benowitz

David Benowitz

Jul 11, 2026

23:52
It's been very material and noticeable to our speed of R&D just broadly.
23:59
We have a lot of mechanical engineers that are prototyping net new products as well.
24:03
And a lot of times they have to pair with some type of software engineer to just get something viable to test.
24:09
But now they really don't anymore with AI.
24:10
They can kind of vibe something to start, get something kind of basic working, just see if the mechanical level works with a very rudimentary software layer created by AI before it kind of goes into a more kind of appropriate production step for the software team.
24:23
So I've kind of seen that too, where now the mechanical engineering team can really move much more independently, get to a deeper level before they start involving other resources and other teams.
25:17
What about from your perspective, David?
25:19
I mean, I think it can just be distracting sometimes, right? I think it's great that it can give a lot of capabilities to people who aren't technical to do technical things, but sometimes that's not always a good thing, right? So I think you have to be a little bit more cutthroat and like, hey, we're doing this or we're not doing this.

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