When hiring product builders, how do you assess someone's AI-native skills?
Everyone has AI on their resume and LinkedIn profile, but what are the questions that reveal the real level of AI fluency?
I sat down with Akriti Dokania (investor, PM, and engineer) to discuss this, and she broke it down into 3 levels:
-> What have you automated?
Not "do you use AI", but what have you actually built and shipped? Akriti has built an agent in a week for the last 6 weeks.
2 -> What has stuck and why?
Anyone can throw things at the wall. The real question is: which workflows actually worked, which tools did you use, and how deep can you go explaining why?
3 -> What's NOT working?
This is the real tell. AI-native people can articulate exactly where they got stuck, what's still broken, and how they hacked around it.
Surface-level AI use = writing emails with ChatGPT.
Truly AI-native = you've built, reflected, and pushed through the hard parts.
Thank you, Akriti Dokania, venture partner
@ridgevc, for sharing your insights with
@ProductsCount's community. Loved the conversation.
Full episode here:
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