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AI Team Reorganization

1 post · May 2025

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Hex has evolved its AI strategy by disbanding its dedicated AI product team ('Magic') and integrating AI feature development directly into persona-based product teams (Editors, Explorers, Curators). This aims to foster an AI-first mentality across the entire engineering organization, eliminate the 'bolt-on' perception of AI features, and increase the number of engineers working on AI. A core AI Platform team remains to manage research, infrastructure, and frameworks, supporting the persona teams.

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  1. We got rid of our AI product teamThis post details the organizational shift from a dedicated AI product team ('Magic') to integrating AI development into persona-based product teams (Editors, Explorers, Curators). It describes the rationale behind this change, including addressing the 'bolt-on' perception of AI features and increasing the number of engineers working on AI. A core AI Platform team is retained for research, infrastructure, and frameworks. The post also mentions the use of AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) and internal frameworks for agentic products on Temporal, fine-tuning infrastructure on Baseten and Modal, and scaling RAG infrastructure with LanceDB.