"Notion is a 1,000-person, venture-backed San Francisco startup with a $10 billion valuation. It makes the ultimate to-do and note-taking app, consisting of so many templates and tables and ways to format tasks that figuring out how to use Notion is a task in itself. On YouTube, productivity gurus attempt to make sense of Notion using the well-worn vernacular of personal optimization. One such video is titled "How to Get Started in Notion Without Losing Your Mind." It has 3.4 million views."
"I was scheduled to start at Notion as a vibe-coding engineer on a Thursday in mid-July. The night before, I found myself panic-watching these YouTube videos. Surely I would need to be a power user of the app if Notion was allowing me—an English major!—to fiddle with its code base. In an earlier onboarding call, a new coworker had encouraged me to download the AI coding platform Cursor and play around with it. I did. No real code emerged from this homework."
A two-day visit to Notion showed rapid adoption of AI-assisted "vibe coding" and tangible code production. Notion is a 1,000-person, venture-backed San Francisco startup valued at $10 billion that builds a heavily templated to-do and note-taking application. Many engineers at Notion rely on AI tools, and some companies estimate 30–40 percent of their code is generated by AI. Notion's complexity drives a large online ecosystem of productivity tutorials, including videos with millions of views. New hires pair-program with experienced engineers and experiment with AI coding platforms such as Cursor during onboarding to ship features quickly.
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