How Notion Built the Best AI Agents For Work (Full Tutorial) | Akshay & Ryan

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​ ​ Akshay and Ryan are Notion’s co-founder and AI lead. Everyone calls their AI product an “agent” but Notion’s agents actually live up to the hype.

It took them 2 years of failure to build agents that can create databases, respond to Slack, and more. We had a great chat about their most surprising lessons from building the best AI agents for work.

We talked about: (00:00) What it really took to build agents that actually work (01:38) Live demo: Watch a database build itself in real-time (04:56) How Akshay writes docs by just talking to AI 90% of the time (20:15) The real difference between AI slop and useful AI agents (34:43) Personalizing agents with custom memory and instructions (39:59) Live demo: Building a custom Notion agent for Slack (49:03) What Notion looks for when hiring AI-native builders

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