""If you want to cancel all your meetings for a day or for an entire week and just go play around with every AI product that you think could be relevant to Airtable, go do it. Period," Liu said. "That's the most important thing. Play. Experimentation," he added. Liu said on the podcast that he takes pride in being the "No. 1 most expensive in inference-cost user of Airtable AI," the company's AI service."
"Liu described his AI usage as "extremely, intentionally wasteful." For instance, Liu said he would spend hundreds of dollars on inference costs just to have AI generate insights based on sales call transcripts. "Hundreds of dollars spent on this exercise is trivial compared to the potential strategic value of having better insights," Liu said. "That's invaluable, right? You could pay a consulting firm literally millions of dollars to get that quality of work," he added."
Howie Liu, Airtable cofounder and CEO, encourages employees to cancel meetings and dedicate days or weeks to experimenting with AI tools that could benefit the company. Liu models the behavior by being the company's top user of Airtable AI and paying high inference costs to generate insights from data like sales call transcripts. Liu describes his AI usage as intentionally wasteful, arguing that hundreds of dollars in inference costs are trivial compared with strategic value and far cheaper than millions a consulting firm would charge. Duolingo also promotes AI use through a weekly activity called "f-r-A-I-days."
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