2× - by Darragh Curran - Fin Ideas
What follows is a version of an email I sent our entire R&D team about an explicit goal and deliberate action we’ll take to become twice as productive through our embrace of AI.
2× What follows is a version of an email I sent our entire R&D team about an explicit goal and deliberate action we’ll take to become twice as productive through our embrace of AI. Darragh Curran Jun 13, 2025 11 Share Advancements in AI are precipitating the most transformative shift in software engineering of the past 25 years. It’s dramatically expanding what software can do and transforming how we build it. We are all novices in this new world, and that’s filling me with wide-eyed excitement. If we were to literally hit pause on further advancements, I’m convinced any engineering team just
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