Notion's New AI Agents for Work Blew Me Away (Full Tutorial) | Akshay & Ryan

Everyone calls their AI product an “agent” but Notion’s actually
live up to the hype. It took Akshay (Notion’s co-founder) and
Ryan (AI lead) 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




Get the takeaways:
https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-notion-built-the-best-ai-agents-for-work-akshay-ryanWhere
to find:


Akshay: https://x.com/akothari


Ryan: https://x.com/_ryannystrom


Notion AI agents:
https://www.notion.com/blog/introducing-notion-3-0


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