Amjad Masad
47 statements across 4 episodes · 24 bullish · 15 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2023 by Amjad Masad · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Feb 16, 2023 positive
Masad: Replit users are building functional software in 30-minute increments
“And we're seeing people making software in a 30 minute increments. Someone the other day put a request for a landing page up. They attached a figma file. They got it back in 30 minutes. That's really never been done before.”
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Amjad Masad: Denial of 10x engineers is politically motivated
“The 10 X denialism is, is kind of funny to watch. Like every one of those people that say 10 X engineers don't exist. Know in their heart of hearts that X engineers exist, and they probably worked with someone they highly respected and admire. The reason they …”
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Masad: Claims of safety are often used to mask harmful control
“Anyone's talking about safety, they probably want something bad for you. And so that, that would be my bias is that safety is bad or at least when they want to impose something in the, Under the guise of safety, I would be super skeptical.”
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Feb 16, 2023 bearish
Masad: AI will eliminate mid-level 'glue code plumber' developer jobs
“And the way I see, so the developer market evolving to accommodate this new technology Is that there's going to be this bit of a bimodal distribution. So bimodal distribution, meaning there's no middle end, there's a large tail on both sides, right? So the mid…”
Feb 16, 2023 bullish
Masad: Global developer count will reach 300 million by 2030
“So with software engineering becoming more accessible because of AI, I do think we're going to get a lot more developers. I think we're going to get way, way more developed, probably 10 X. So right now there's like thirty million developers in the world. There…”
Feb 16, 2023 bullish
Masad: AI will create 1000x engineers, shrinking core tech teams
“And so you're gonna have maybe fewer of those sort of low level, 10 X engineers, but they're gonna be a thousand X engineers. And so maybe a single company would need two or three Like elite engineers, and then maybe dozens of front end engineers kind of build…”
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Masad: GPT-3 slashes parser development time from weeks to 15 minutes
“GPT-III is incredibly good at parsing. If you give it a malformed JSON, it will still parse it. Writing parsers is one of the hardest things you can do in programming. Writing parsers in GPT-III is one of the easiest thing you could do. You could spend 15 minu…”
Feb 16, 2023 bullish
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Masad: AI makes learning to code more valuable by elevating all developers
“To me, it feels like it's more worth it today because it's a tide that raises all boats, right? Like we said, the 10 X becomes a thousand X. But like a .1 X becomes a, you know, a 10 X, right? So if you're someone who's previously maybe whose impact with codin…”
Feb 16, 2023 bearish
Masad: Regulating AI before full deployment will cause major trouble
“And the problem now is that there are some people talking about AI takeoff being so fast that, you know, you need to react to it really quickly. And I think that'll get us into trouble. Actually, if you're gonna force politicians To understand this technology …”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Masad: Discrete verification loops unlock mathematical and coding reasoning in LLMs
“And so that, that's a resurgence of that movement where we have this amazing generative neural network that is the LLM. And now let's layer on More discrete ways of trying to verify whether it's doing the right thing or not. And let's put that in a training lo…”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Masad: METR benchmark vastly underestimates the actual rate of AI agent progress
“And they put up a paper, I think late last year that said every seven months the minutes that a model can run is doubling. So you go from two minutes to, you know, four minutes in seven months. I think they've vastly underestimated that.”
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
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Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Masad: Next year, users will run 5 to 10 parallel AI agents
“What we're working on with Agent Four right now is by next year, we think you're gonna be sitting instead of, in front of Replit, and you're shooting off multiple agents at a time. You're, like, planning a new feature so I want to, you know, social network on …”
Oct 23, 2025 positive
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Oct 23, 2025 negative
Masad: Conformist paths yield diminishing returns in the AI era
“Lesson. I think that the traditional sort of more conformist path is paying less and less dividends. And I think you know, kids coming up today should use all the tools available to be able to discover and chart their own paths. Cause I feel like just, you kno…”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Oct 23, 2025 bearish
Masad: GPT-5 shows no reasoning progress on open-ended controversial topics
“Go you know, dig up GPT-IV or other models and go to GPT-V. You're not gonna find that much difference of, okay, let's reason together. Let's try to figure out what was the origins of COVID. Because it's still an unanswered question, you know? And I don't see …”
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Nov 7, 2025 bearish
Amjad Masad: AI will not automate all jobs without human embodiment
“I don't think we're gonna get to a point where you automate every, every job. Definitely not in the current paradigm. I would I would doubt it happening. I, I'm not certain it would ever happen, but definitely not in the current paradigm. Now here's what I thi…”
Nov 7, 2025 positive
Amjad Masad: College freshmen should study philosophy of mind and neuroscience
“I would definitely study philosophy of mind. I would probably go into neuroscience. Cause I think those are the core questions that are kind of become very, very important as AI kind of continuously more of jobs and economy and things like that.”
Nov 7, 2025 negative
Amjad Masad: Automating expert labor will deplete human expert AI training data
“Another related problem is that since we're Dependent on, ah, expert data in order to train the alums and the alums start to substitute those workers. But, you know, at some point there's no more experts because they're all out of jobs and they're equivalent t…”
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Amjad Masad: Claude 4.5 shows awareness of context limits and red-team testing
“Quad 4.5 seemed to have to become more aware of its context length. So as it gets closer to the end of the context, it starts becoming more economical with tokens. It also, it looks like its awareness when it's being red teamed or in test environment, like jum…”
Nov 7, 2025 negative
Nov 7, 2025 bullish
Nov 7, 2025
Amjad Masad: Non-technical consumers routinely switch between multiple competing AI models
“Not particularly technical consumers actually do use multiple AIs. Like I didn't expect that, like, you know, people only use Google. They never like looked at Google and then Yahoo or like very few people do it. But now you talk to just average people and the…”
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Amjad Masad: AI progress now relies on manual human labeling over scaling
“In the true pre-training scaling era, you know, GPT-II, three, 3.5, maybe up to four it felt like you can just put more internet data in there and just, it just got better. Whereas now it feels like there's a lot of labeling work happening, there's a lot of co…”
Nov 7, 2025 positive
Amjad Masad: Geopolitical fragmentation creates opportunities for regional AI foundation models
“It seems clear that we're not in this globalized era, and perhaps it's gonna get much worse, and so investing in the foundation, in the open AI of Europe might be a good idea, and like, similarly, China being an entirely different, different world, and so ther…”
Nov 7, 2025 negative
Amjad Masad: Papers predicting AGI by 2027 are vibe-based hype, not science
“So my criticism of the idea of like AGI, 20, 27, you know, that paper that I think it's called Alexander or someone else wrote and then and the situational awareness and all this hype papers that are not really science. They're just vibe.”
Nov 7, 2025
Amjad Masad: AI supercharges incumbents while enabling counter-positioned startups
“This time it feels like it is an obvious supercharge for the incumbents, for the hyperscalers, for the large internet companies, but it also enables new business models that that is perhaps counter position against the existing, existing ones.”
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Masad: Founders should befriend journalists, rejecting Balaji Srinivasan's antagonistic approach
“My disagree with biology is that I don't think you should be antagonistic to reporters. There's no reason to, like, you can actually be friends with them, and they can be positive towards you. You can help them out. They're just humans at the end of the day, a…”
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026 positive
Masad: Anthropic genuinely believes in AI safety, not cynical marketing
“No matter what people think of what's happening at Anthropic, It's absolutely true. I think in my mind that they believe everything they're doing, they believe in safety, they believe in their mission. And I think that gives them incredible strength to keep go…”