AI Prompting

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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 …”
Igor Taber May 5, 2026 ▶ 12:00 Why Credible Investors Are Actually Killing Startups
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, …”
Jeremy Toeman Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 38:52 Scaling AI Video Innovation with Jeremy Toeman of JWX | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
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,…”
Dr. Becky Kennedy Feb 1, 2026 ▶ 1:18:59 A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Aaron Levie Aug 25, 2025 ▶ 20:27 Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Pete Koomen May 23, 2025 ▶ 20:17 How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
a16z Insight
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…”
Martin Casado Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 40:51 Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era

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