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These sorts of simulations are a great use case for Large Language Models. Economists should be all over this.

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Solving “how to work on” vs “what to work on”. In terms of innovation, Amazon seems to have had an interesting advantage in R&D. And while Google seems to have deliberately been structure for such an advantage, I’m not sure how that’s working out for them.

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Aug 22Liked by Alex Sima

Interesting. We could use this approach to analyze the performance of product development org structures such and Spotify model, Large Scale Scrum and the Scaled Agile Framework. I would like to see this experiment expanded to include adaptation to new input, since product development is empirical.

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You can’t really draw any conclusions from a 1 or 2 problem difference. It’s an interesting idea, but we would need somebody with more financial capital to run these experiments in order to get results.

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Absolutely agree! The main purpose behind this blog post was to mainly draw attention to the methodology in the hopes that this problem is further explored.

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