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Tie it to the specific work, not 'I love AI'
Name the parts in "Tie it to the specific work, not 'I love AI'" and give the practical job of each one.
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Tie it to the specific work, not 'I love AI'
Cite the work this role actually does
- Inventing interfaces
- UX for reviewing PRs of AI-generated code, multi-file edit review
- Zero-to-one verticals
- Building something like AI bug detection from scratch on a ~2-week timeline
- Experiments at scale
- A/B tests on millions of users to advance agent and editor capability
- Latency and cost craft
- Holding low-latency tab prediction while the model gets smarter
Specific references beat generic AI enthusiasm every time.
Watch out
Do not invent product specifics to a team that built the product. If you have not used a capability, frame your interest as a hypothesis you want to test, not a fact you are asserting. Honest curiosity survives; a wrong claim ends the conversation.