AI Copilots
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9 statements about AI Copilots, every show
Lemkin: Paid standalone AI co-pilots were B2B software's biggest 2025 failure
“The biggest failing of this year, we talked about, I want to say in twenties, going to Rory's point, it was the co-pilot. The co-pilot was the worst of all worlds. We're not going to put it in our base product. We're not going to make the core product better, …”
Fedus: Periodic Labs will build AI co-pilots for space and defense
“Basically co-pilots for engineers, researchers in advanced industries. So maybe perhaps just being in Silicon Valley, we, you know, we really think about like computer oriented work. Everything is digital. Everything is bits, but there's so many industries. Li…”
Kahn: AI co-pilots can serve as junior assistants or senior mentors
“They can both be a kind of junior colleague, but also you can prompt them to act as a kind of senior mentor. And instead of having them do the first draft, which you then oversee, you could do the first draft yourself and then ask the co-pilot to sort of criti…”
Luan: AI will make workers generalists supervising specialized AI co-pilots
“So I think what it's gonna do is it's gonna make humans at work much more like generalists, and it's gonna have, like, causes to create larger and larger, oh, sorry, like or giving people sort of, like, larger and larger scope over various different, like, are…”
Autonomous AI agents will likely boost productivity 4-5x more than copilots
“So theoretically, if it's anywhere close can a copilot or sorry, an agent is probably four to five times more productivity boosting job producing than an agent, than a copilot.”
Siu: AI co-pilots make software developers 4x to 8x more effective
“With AI co-pilots and everything, like developers are becoming four to eight, eight X more effective.”
Kiela: By 2030, Workers Will Manage Fleets of AI Co-Pilots
“What I think is going to happen is that there's a couple of CEOs on the stage here, and I'm sure there's a couple of CEOs in the audience, so we will all be our own CEO of our little company of AI co-pilots that are going to be doing a lot of very boring, mund…”