Best engineers 2–5x more productive with AI
Ishan predicts the best engineers, marketers, and salespeople will be 2 to 5 times more productive in the AI era, while others will need to reskill.
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Apr 28, 2026
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The Future of AI, Productivity, and Weekly Planning
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Ishan's answer to 'what comes after agents?' is refreshingly honest: nobody knows what the world will look like in six months. But the fuzzy long-term view is becoming clearer. In the B2B world ROX operates in, every business and team will become dramatically more productive. The best performers — the best engineers, the best marketers, the best salespeople — will be 2 to 5 times more productive than they are today. [1] — Ishan Mukherjee "Predicting AI six months out is nearly impossible — but the long-term direction is clear. The best performers will be 2 to 5x more producti…" 12:36 That upside, however, comes with a hard corollary: those who don't reskill and aspire to become the best will fall behind. The transformation is already happening, and it will only accelerate. For ROX's own planning process, the implication is practical and immediate: monthly planning cycles are already obsolete. ROX runs on weekly targets and executes daily, because the window in which a monthly plan remains relevant has collapsed.
Weekly plans, daily execution
Given how fast AI is moving, ROX operates on weekly plans and daily execution rather than monthly planning cycles.
Founder Advice: Opinionated Architecture, Iterative Product
Build with strong convictions at the infrastructure layer and relentless flexibility at the product layer. That's Ishan's formula for navigating an industry moving faster than anyone can fully predict.
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