Box CEO Aaron Levie: AI makes experts more powerful, not obsolete
a16z · x · 2026-10-19
In an a16z thread, Box CEO Aaron Levie argues AI's biggest gains go to people with domain expertise, who can judge what's true in AI output and what to integrate. "Experts just get more powerful in this world." He advises students to master a field — AI is merely a turbocharger. Quoted founder Jad Naous adds that AI widened the gap between okay and great engineers 10X, since AI can't handle distributed-systems complexity for you.
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