AI Native Company

I mentioned AI-native in a previous post and want to extract the definition out here, so I can point at it later.#

By “AI-native” I mean three things:#

Agentic coding is the main coder, often the sole coder.
Every process gets rethought to run at AI speed. Concretely: ideas, roadmaps, projects, issues are all just artifacts inside git-controlled repositories, managed either by the AI or by deterministic code the AI writes.
Quality comes from scaffolding, not from human review. Skills, plans, post-milestone code review, many many tests — the scaffolding is what holds the bar, because no human is reading every diff.

You need all three for an AI-native company. AI as autocomplete inside a human-driven process isn’t AI-native — that’s AI-assisted, and it’s a different thing. AI-native means the process itself is shaped around the agent doing the work.#

It’s a great time to build toward this now.#