What I Can’t Automate Is What to Build with Ryan Carson

As the sole employee of his one-person company, Untangle, creator Ryan Carson has figured out how to automate many of the responsibilities he would have hired someone to take on in a traditional business. Datadog and Sentry reports for engineering maintenance. Analytics for marketing. Iterating on AI-generated design assets. But as he explained to Tim O’Reilly, “What you can't automate is ‘What should you build?’ and the features that matter.” Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social