Granola cofounder on designing products when agents skip your UI for MCP
petergyang · x · 2026-10-04
In a new podcast episode, Peter Yang interviews Sam Stephenson, cofounder of AI meeting-notes app Granola, on hard questions: what design means when agents skip your UI and call your MCP directly, how to avoid shipping slop when anyone can deploy to prod, and how to build an AI startup without 996 culture. Key quotes: "It's so easy to make stuff. The hard thing is knowing what to make" and "There's definitely a pang of sadness in the UI designer part of me." Stephenson's product philosophy: "Using our product should lower your blood pressure and make you feel calm."
Related event: Granola Co-founder on Building Products for the Agent Era(2 posts)→
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