Signal 09: IC vs. Manager | AI Solves 70-Year Math | SpaceX Goes Public | AI 15x Cheaper

An AI just solved a geometric problem open for 70 years. SpaceX filed for a $1.75T IPO. Google's CEO named 2030 as his year for AGI. And inside Nova, the team went from a frontier model to one that costs 15 times less and performs 2.5x better on AI shortlisting.This week Ramon sits down with Christian, CPO at Nova, and Jesus, Head of AI at Nova, to cover what's shipping at Nova and what shaped the week across AI, tech, and the future of work.This week's news- GPT cracks the Erdos geometry problem, open and unsolved for 70 years- SpaceX files for a $1.75T IPO, selling roughly 4% of shares- Google I/O: 7x more tokens processed year-on-year, CEO says AGI by 2030- EU Pay Transparency directive goes live next week, enforcement still pending in most countries- Micron and AMD up 6x in 2 months as agents drive unexpected demand for CPU and RAM over GPU- XAI and Cursor: why Grok needs a platform, not just a better modelTimeless takeaways- How Nova went from a frontier model to one that's 15x cheaper and 2.5x more accurate on shortlisting, using eval datasets and LLM-as-a-judge- Fine-tuning vs. prompting in 2026: when each makes sense and why most teams are still prompting- How Nova's product team now ships full projects end-to-end, from data pipelines to the website, without handing off to engineering- The "Become an AI Recruiter" course: how Christian built it solo with AI and one LinkedIn post hit 1,400 comments the day after- IC vs. manager: why the best career move in 2026 is staying in the field, not climbing above it- Claude Code: why the desktop app is the better onboarding path for non-technical teamsThe episode closes with a sharp conversation on the IC vs. manager shift, why mid-management built on information relay is quietly being replaced, and what the actual future of knowledge work looks like.Signal is hosted by Ramon Rodriganez and Andrea Marino, co-founders of Nova. New episode every week.#Signal #AINews #FutureOfWork #Nova