{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Marketing Engineer","title":"Why You Should Stop Using One AI Model for Everything | Andy McCutcheon, Block","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3016,"description":"Andy McCutcheon is the GTM AI Lead at Block, and spends much of his time convincing colleagues who have never opened a terminal that they can build their own tools.\nAt a company of six thousand people, that means weekly office hours, casual working sessions where he shares his screen live and lets people watch him think, and a running answer for anyone who says they don't know where to start: you have to be bad at something before you can be good at it.\nBlock’s internal skills marketplace now holds three thousand tools, many of them built by people who found their way in through office hours just like Andy's.\nWe discuss:Getting non-technical teams comfortable building with AIWhat it takes to contribute to an internal marketplace of three thousand skills and toolsWhy Andy tells people they have to be bad at something before they can be good at itWhat goes into building an MCP server that people can actually talk to conversationallyTwo slash commands that give his AI agent memory between sessionsThe personal newsletter that runs AI research every night while he sleepsConnect with Andy:\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andysmccutcheon/\nBlock: https://block.xyz/\n\nConnect with Profound:Website: https://tryprofound.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryprofound/X: https://x.com/tryprofoundRead the Marketing Engineer Manifesto: https://www.tryprofound.com/marketing-engineerProfound University: https://university.tryprofound.com/\nResources Mentioned:Andy's Skills Library: https://github.com/andymccutcheon/skills\nThe Marketing Engineer is a show for practitioners figuring out in real time what it means to market at the frontier. New episodes every two weeks.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-AgCBNS2nTWbiHNI1ZmqFSKwuv_MvJblQ2Q8OkZPwuE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMjRj/YTM4ZWY3MzY0YTE5/Mjc1ZjUxOWNhZDZm/MWI2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}