From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last from No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

From Coder to Manager: Navigating the Shift to Agentic Engineering with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last

29 minutes Posted Mar 12, 2026 at 10:00 am.

– Cold Open

– Simon Last Introduction

– Genesis of Notion AI

– Challenge of Semantic Indexing and Retrieval

– The Six-Month Rewrite Cycle

– Notion’s Coding Agent Era

– Impact on Team Dynamics

– Launching Custom Agents

– Notion as the ‘Switzerland’ for Models

– Designing APIs for Agent Customers

– Simon’s Personal Agentic Workflows

– Notion: Tool for Work is Now A Tool for Agents

– How Building Has Changed for Simon

– Conclusion

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Notion isn’t designing AI agents that just use tools. Their agents can autonomously build their own integrations, as well as write the code needed to finish a task. Sarah Guo sits down with Notion Co-Founder Simon Last to explore Notion’s rapid evolution from a simple writing assistant to a sophisticated platform for custom AI agents. Simon discusses the technical hurdles of indexing disparate data from sources like Slack and Google Drive, as well as the internal shift toward using coding agents to build Notion itself. Plus, Simon elaborates on what he sees as a fundamental transition in productivity: moving from a tool where humans do the work, to one where humans manage a swarm of agents.

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