The First Department AI Would Rebuild

2 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The First Department AI Would Rebuild" (created 2026-08-02T16:21:53+00:00). The excerpt is a spoken commentary about which company department should be rebuilt if AI were native from day one — arguing that IT would be the first because current IT (and some product/engineering teams) are not AI-native and act as blockers. The speaker describes younger staff and interns outperforming product teams, mentions a product leader being fired and the team being in flux, and references someone rebuilding a function from scratch. Participants are not clearly identified in the excerpt (only labeled as 'SPEAKER A').

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What part of the company would you rebuild from scratch if AI were native from day one? And almost everybody gave the same answer. What do you think the answer is? IT. Everyone would cut their IT team because their IT teams are the ones that are non-AI native right now that are blocking a lot. So they're kind of digging in and you're kind of seeing a version of that with engineering, but whether it's IT or in a sense, it's whoever's not AI-pilled on the IT side, even on the product side as well, because we have a mutual friend where the interns are running circles around the product team. I think they fired their product leader and then another one of them quit. And so the product team is in flux right now, and then you have the younger people right now running circles around them, and he's actually doing it from scratch right now.