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Recorded conversations about getting a team good at AI. Each one is cut into clips, and every clip has its transcript, so you can read it instead of watching.

Oytun Tez and Elif Polat during the conversation

Full conversation · 36:22 · 8 moments

Where does AI work go after you make it?

A live conversation about making a team good at AI: what happens to the things people make with it, who is allowed to make them, and why signing a long contract with any one vendor right now is a bet against yourself.

Oytun Tez, Founder, Runwork, with Elif Polat

The prototype used to take an army of engineers, from the conversation with Elif Polat 0:41

The prototype used to take an army of engineers

Elif on what shrank: a designer, two engineers and months of meetings, down to one person and a model in a day.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 7:39

Then what do I do?, from the conversation with Elif Polat 1:20

Then what do I do?

You built the thing with AI. It is sitting in your Downloads folder and it stops working when you close the laptop.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 8:43

Code is not knowledge, from the conversation with Elif Polat 0:18

Code is not knowledge

Why company brain and company context miss half the problem. What your team makes with AI is a process, and processes need somewhere to live.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 11:40

You cannot sign a five-year contract with a baby, from the conversation with Elif Polat 0:55

You cannot sign a five-year contract with a baby

Sign with one vendor today and next week something arrives at a tenth of the price. The market is too young to lock into.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 15:19

31 skills in three weeks, after three years of waiting, from the conversation with Elif Polat 1:20

31 skills in three weeks, after three years of waiting

Elif waited three years for the environment. Three weeks after getting it, a third of the team was using what she built.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 18:33

It is party time for IT people, from the conversation with Elif Polat 1:22

It is party time for IT people

The unglamorous internal queue can now be handled by the person who has the problem. IT gets to go back to the product.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 24:49

The Google Drive of your team's AI work, from the conversation with Elif Polat 1:03

The Google Drive of your team's AI work

The craziest version of this: a system of record for what teams produce with AI, owned by them, not by whoever made the model.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 32:15

Forget what you know. Pretend to be silly., from the conversation with Elif Polat 1:13

Forget what you know. Pretend to be silly.

Go to AI with the problem, not your solution. Then the pushback: it hurts my ego to rely on a statistical model.

Oytun Tez with Elif Polat · 34:30

Ask your own AI about this