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Reyes: AI foundation model margins are worse than application margins
“The margin profile of the models is definitely worse than the applications.”
Reyes: Being Model-Locked Is a Huge Disadvantage for Outcome-Focused AI Apps
“I think that the application layer is going to be a much harder battle because being model locked is actually a huge disadvantage if you're trying to sell outcomes.”
Reyes: Agent harnesses solve AI problems, not models or gateways
“People really want the problems to be solved, like sort of somewhere else, like in the model or in the gateway, but more and more we see it's the harness that solves these problems.”
Reyes: Performative 996 hustle culture usually masks underlying candidate weaknesses
“This sort of performative work culture, this like nine nine six sort of attitude is almost always correlated with making up for some other You know, detractor or trait that, you know, basically means that this person might not be a great hire.”
Reyes: SaaS companies now operate like movie studios needing continuous hits
“Contemporary SaaS businesses are more like movie studios now, where you have to hit a blockbuster, and you have to keep hitting blockbusters in order to keep the attention of the world”
Reyes: Public commentary directly shapes LLM world models for the next decade
“In today's world, the words that you say and how you portray something, that becomes a part of the story that the intelligence systems that we're building ingest. And they, they're like world model, LLMs, and the tools that we're going to use to do work on a d…”
Reyes: Ivy League pedigree is barely a signal for competence
“I went to an Ivy League school. I learned firsthand that that is barely a signal for competence. There are plenty of idiots who went to Ivy League schools, and I think that the clearest signal for me that someone's done something great is that they have built …”
Reyes: AI pricing should be evaluated per outcome, not input tokens
“When you're thinking about price, you should not be thinking about the inputs to the price. You should be thinking about the outputs. So I think about the price of the outcome.”
Reyes: Verifiability is the most critical factor for AI success
“Verifiability is ultimately the single most important property of success with current AI systems.”
Reyes: Gateway routing saves 10-20%, but agentic workflows require stateful routing
“What's interesting is that we've seen that you can definitely get some nice cost savings doing this, like, 10, 20% from these types of products but you really
Need something fundamentally different when you have agentic workflows, because to actually take the …”
Reyes: Solo Open-Source Projects Reveal Far More Conviction Than Interviews
“The profile of an organization has changed so rapidly that acquiring an organization is no longer what it was 10 years ago, and what I mean by that is if you are someone who just created an open source project, then you are quitting your job and you're spendin…”
Reyes: Widely disliked enterprise software is durable because of underlying systems of record
“I think that the biggest thing is when people say, I hate that software and everyone buys it, that's probably a pretty good business, because they're not buying the software, they're buying what's underneath of it, and that to me is actually much more durable …”