AI Tools

“I think the people that we see who are most effective at using AI tools don't simply use it to automate rote tasks, but use it to expand the set of things that they are capable of doing.”

“We have to create a tool that can fully automate everything. The other choice is you just create a tool that allows advertisers to interact with, to allow them to collaborate with the AI tool to create their own content. So right now we see that the second typ…”

“And it seemed like initially these tools had a very finite scope of techniques that they would use. And it seems like they've expanded. And I think with this test, For us, it was interesting because they now seem to have escaped from just doing things like SQL…”

“Nowadays there are tons of different AI tools, applications, platforms, but everyone is getting tired of certain software as a service model. you know, everyone demands results, you know, like end to end results basically.”

“So if you believe in job destruction, like in any kind of very large scale way, you basically don't believe that markets adapt and you basically don't believe that some other company will emerge and say, I'm gonna just do this way better. And the way I'm going…”

“There's two hundred million businesses that are on Metis platforms today. We think that number should go to billions with this explosion of creativity and using AI tools”

“One that I don't think gets much attention is how, how are we going to avoid cognitive atrophy?”

“I would bet that this generally will cut against many years of experience in favor of people who have a lot of fluency with the tools.”

“All of the audited financial statements that we get for our managers, we read them looking for specific pieces of information. They're also interesting time series of data. Trying to use some of these tools to create a better picture over time of how individua…”

“And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools, because that's gonna be part of what the work requires now.”

“Various tools that are available to us these days enable you to bring out those sides of your personality and those professional aspirations. And that's something that people are really enjoying. We're sort of escaping our classic swim lanes and a certain perc…”

“Individual scientists who are using AI tools are benefiting because they are producing more papers. They are getting more grants accepted. But science as a whole is narrowing.”

“If you were trying to do the same amount of work and you believe you can do it with fewer people and therefore you shrink your competition can also do the same, but they chose actually not to do the same amount of work. They chose to actually, you know, elevat…”

“You're seeing this right now with Adobe. There's an AI problem here. Had they not been so aggressive in pricing over time, would the customers be as willing to switch to new AI tools? It's an interesting counterfactual to think about.”

“Most companies are about to have the exact same problem. They're going to have 10 AI tools, 50 workflows, a bunch of half working automations, and nobody understands how to turn that into an operating system, which is what they really want.”

“Having a full-time social media manager is no longer necessary. It's, it becomes an expense on your, in your burn that you're looking at saying when we have so many tools that can do this faster and sometimes better, more efficiently, and definitely more affor…”

“The power of the tools now which are available is going to automatically look into it and say there's a time limit demand. If you settle it now, you're done with 5000 dollars because that's what the customer feels is the right number. If not, the customer is g…”

“I worry that we're going to not get a seamless move into like a one single place where we can do all of this, like the sort of the pie in the sky version that you're talking about, where there's one tool, but instead we have to use like Three or four different…”

“We're like at one percent penetration of what is the market in terms of what you can currently do with these tools. Only one percent of the people are actually doing it.”

“I think the enterprise itself, you know, I'd hesitate to say, I don't think we do much with the enterprise today by the more traditional definition of like thousands and thousands of employee companies. I don't think those companies in general are like, Yet di…”

“Even though the, in my mind, everything, the progress is actually pretty continuous, you need to reach this level of reliability. To really make any of these AI tools very useful, and I think we just crossed that probably December last year, at least at OpenAI…”

“Games companies or, you know, other types of companies that have built some kind of best selling app, best selling game using these tools. That's what you should see first. And then more of that will get automated.”

“And I think in that you start to see more of a bimodal distribution of engineers, right? You start to see like, wow, there's this subset of people that they really get it. Like they're all in and they've clearly invested the hours needed to learn these tools a…”

“In engineering, you have your best engineers can use these tools to really accelerate themselves. And your weaker engineers might not understand how to use these tools or might only get a two X instead of a 10 X or a hundred X increase in output.”

“The fact that I can do so much more on my own and you can do so much more on your own just means we don't need to include as many people that we don't have to play nicely with others as much.”

“If you build a 60% solution. No, one's going to pay for it.”

“With AI tools, I think that we're gonna see a whole new wave where these systems are, you know, kind of managed by the AI tools and that can help us Scale things a lot more quickly”

“When we make architectural decisions, the first question that we ask is, is this an architectural decision that will increase or decrease the capability of AI tools to have the, to make the right answers?”

“What would have taken 50 people to do four years ago, now with the right AI tools, you can do with one person.”

“I think 20, 26 is going to be insane. It's already a little insane on that fund because we're seeing a lot of the big players move from kind of subsidy based request based pricing to straight up API pricing, consumption based pricing and I haven't seen a ton o…”

“Now the tools are so good that I can really use natural language to build things.”

“Well, now that's happening incredibly quickly because designers can ship code with, you know, all these new AI tools. The whole world of design is changing, I think, very rapidly, because now, you know, many of our designers are just empowered. If they've got …”

“And so it's been hard to see a path forward. For Snap up against these giants without AI tools. And now with AI tools, you're like, wow, we can basically have an infinite number of engineering resources.”

“The new technical is that you used AI tools so well that what people used to take pride in being technical on is now an implementation detail that is less important.”

“I still think that I write better emails than these tools do, but it usually does a good enough draft that I can just tweak a few things and be like, great, you know, send it for me.”

“I think the, it's becoming a little bit less important now to be, let's say, a specialist software engineer in a given field, because The AI tools, they can turn you into a specialist much more quickly, but you need to be an expert in the AI tool use itself, a…”

“There's been this correlation between the number of folks at a company and the output from the company for, you know, decades and decades. I think that basically broke the first week of December, and what we were seeing is that one or two engineers, or a desig…”

“Well, it's not only anxiety, Jess, but like there's actual now data coming out that people have been measuring people's, not only their memory, but their problem solving, like their constructive thinking and people, the more people are using all these AI tools…”

“None of the AI tools we use today, which are all great, but none of them can really use AI to auto segment in a way that can deliver these results.”

“I actually think most of those people, most of the new grads, they're gonna be so good at using those AI tools. They're gonna put all the people that are in the older range out of business and be able to do tenx more just by having lived through, like, this re…”

“When I hear people say, oh, you know maybe we're just gonna have all these great tools and we won't do more things. We'll just do the same things with fewer people. It doesn't sound right to me. I mean, there'll be some of that, but I think most of it will be,…”

“I think there's like a little bit of a happy medium, but more, we get more excited when a company is kind of more AI first in terms of the tools they use. The reason I don't say like, A hundred percent AI all the time is because the tools aren't perfect yet, s…”

“Our view is that it's not a zero sum game. And part of that is, there is really no price on intelligence. You, if you're more intelligent, if your system is more intelligent, if your product is more intelligent, is your company more intelligent and makes bette…”

“We are seeing less and less allegiance from B to B buyers to any software product. Churn is just generally higher with these AI tools.”

“The thing that will differentiate you more in your career than anything else is to be the most hyper curious person That that's trying to do this thing. And once again, that's put on steroids with these AI tools. But if you are the most curious person that's c…”

“Is not overly build it like, okay, this is AI capabilities, but only specifically for finance, only for specifically for this workflow, but actually build a much more open-ended tool that someone can just use for any given task creatively.”

“Both engineers and PMs, 70% of people said they are enjoying their job more. And about 10% said they're enjoying their job less. Designers, interestingly, Only 55% said they're enjoying their job more, and 20% said they're enjoying their job less.”

“There's never been more opportunity than this, that if you're good, you get to lever up, and like, whatever your output was gonna be, you can sort of 10 to hundred x that using these tools. You don't need to use all of them. You don't need to catch every oppor…”

“So I think that's the advantage that we have over people that are technical. We just come into this completely unbiased and very positively delusional, which I think you have to have when working with AI tools, you have to come with this delusion that absolute…”

“If I was a betting man, as they say, I'd bet that the next class that wins are designers, because We're training these tools to be more clear, to be better, to make better technical decisions. I don't think we will train them just yet to be, make better emoti…”

“This is a business that is gonna go like this, like slowly grow and have lower churn because it's a mature market. You know that these Pinterest people have been there for 10 years, and it's a totally proven thing. It's not like some AI tool that's a flash in …”

“It's probably well over half of the global internet population has used AI tools already.”

“I think that's one of the big things you're going to see in 20, 26 is again, this productivity boom for knowledge workers.”

“If you're starting a new company today, and you have, like, a really good understanding and, like, network of customers that are currently underserved by AI tools, I think you're, like, you're set. Whereas if you're, like, good at building, like, you know, web…”

“I don't need to grow anymore in people. Cause like what the designer can do now, one designer can do 10 X more output, if not 50 X more output.”

“Some of these tools are, like, you know, 40 to a hundred K a year-ish, but we replace headcount.”

“From an IT standpoint, you normally don't allow software to just be used across your organization with access to your organization's data and have no idea what's happening. We're letting that happen in AI all the time.”

“The usage on these tools in the enterprise is less than People would think today”

“From a content perspective, not really. I just don't find, I don't find for myself at least, it's quite ready yet to do kind of the stuff that I needed to do. Like finding the little quirks of the cars, it just doesn't have the knowledge quite yet there.”

“Like, I think in trying to save money, you're actually spending a lot more time than you normally would just deploying these and getting the outputs of AI by doing these 10 different betas. I was like, just pick one, and if you feel like the cost It's prohibit…”