E41: [Bonus Episode - Latent.space] Building the AI x UX Scenius with Linus Lee of Notion AI

[Bonus Episode] Latent.space hosts, Alessio and Swyx, sit down with Linus Lee of Notion AI to discuss Linus’ experience starting the AI/UX community, prompt engineering at Notion, and designing AI interfaces and agents. 

The latent.space podcast aims to be the first place where AI engineers hear about the latest AI news and technology trends. We’ve had several guests in common – including Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails, Jonathan & Abhi from the recently acquired for $1.3B MosaicML, and also Riley Goodside from Scale AI – and also explored similar themes, including the question of which AI companies have durable business moats, and the flurry of experimentation going into AI agents right now. We recommend checking them out! 

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TIMESTAMPS

(05:52) Starting the AI / UX community

(12:23) Most knowledge work is not text generation

(18:43) Finding the right constraints and interface for AI

(21:27) Linus' journey to working at Notion

(25:51) The importance of notations and interfaces

(28:29) Setting interface defaults and standards

(34:58) The challenges of designing AI agents

(42:00) Notion deep dive: “Blocks”, AI, and more

(53:22) Prompt engineering at Notion

(01:04:22) Lightning Round