AI Prompting
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Innovators & Investors
We Live to Build
Lenny's Podcast
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about AI Prompting, every show
Taber: Founders Cannot Prompt Their Way to Building Real Companies Yet
“But I think building a company, I'm personally not yet at the place where I think there's, where I think you can just go like you know, prompt your way into building a company. I just don't think we're there yet. Despite maybe a couple examples that show, you …”
Toeman: Mediocre AI prompting cannot drive true skill improvement
“You can't mediocrely prompt your way to improvement, right? You can only improve by taking that mediocre prompt, taking the mediocre output, Doing your own editing and then getting some other person to come back and smack you over the head and tell you, nope, …”
Dr. Becky: Prompting AI works best as an unorganized raw brain dump
“I really do think that people who get the most out of prompting, like, there is a, I know, like, a vomiting aspect. Tell me all your thoughts, and I think a lot of people, especially women, We've been conditioned to, like, put everything into this, like, neat,…”
Levie: AI prompting will not disappear anytime soon
“I think prompting doesn't go away anytime soon, simply because the leverage you get on the set of instructions you're going to give the AI at the start. It's still going to be massive.”
Koomen: Mainstream users will adopt AI prompting faster than personal computing
“And I think the same thing is going to happen with prompting. So I think this is actually going to happen a lot faster with prompting, because writing a prompt is a lot more accessible than, you know, operating your file system manager on, on your computer. Yo…”
Casado: AI prompting requires domain vision and skill, not just access
“One thing you definitely learn is that there is a skill to prompting like it, like this idea that like it allows everybody to be like creative is like not quite right. It just turns out that like some people know what they want and they have vision and they ac…”