Notion's bet on agents: abstract away deployment so users and agents just write code
simonguozirui · x · 2026-10-16
Speaking at Vercel's Ship SF event, a Notion engineer outlined the philosophy behind "Notion Workers": the ideal developer experience lets both users and agents just write code, abstracting away deployment, credential management, and hosting so anyone—not just developers—can improve their agents. The key claim: even the most capable agents need simple primitives to build on.
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