Meritocratic companies and flat organizational structure

It's still a foreign feeling to work at a company that is entirely meritocratic and where titles don't really matter. Everyone ships and the best ideas win. This hasn't always been the case in my career. This is also due in part from hiring strong generalists. You could call this an "AI native company" possibly, and certainly heavy use of AI for all parts of knowledge work does make it easier for a single IC to ship something end-to-end, but it's probably something deeper culturally. To be clear, we *do* still have titles at Cursor, but I now understand why other companies have singular titles like "member of technical staff". And yes, to answer the obvious question, there is always *some* power structure. If a CEO asks for something it's different than a new hire. But leaders at Cursor don't devise a grand scheme in isolation and then emerge from the shadows like "Behold! The roadmap!". I think this also has tradeoffs (there is no perfect org structure) but it is refreshingly different from how I've worked prior in my career. I don't have a grand point to make here I'm just yapping 😂