Gen AI

“Netflix's role in this is to enable creators with whatever tools they want to use to bring their vision to life. There are going to be some creators or filmmakers who are on the end of the spectrum that says, absolutely not. No AI. That is not how I do product…”

“After the Gen AI revolution, like the way now we build intelligent applications is we take models off the shelf. These are general purpose models. They can reason on a variety of tasks, and then we condition the models to work a specific way by doing prompt en…”

“Historically across the world, across industries, as a matter of fact, it first moved from a manufacturer-driven approach, one product, to you consumer, take it or leave it, to mass customization, which is basically identifying different segments and trying to…”

“All the conventional wisdom of, like, build an MVP, start really small. Like, none of that makes sense anymore when we can all build so quickly now with Gen AI. It's more of a race. Who can actually build something useful the fastest as opposed to like startin…”

“QuickBooks is not something you can vibe code. The numbers need to be accurate. The foundation needs to be robust. The properties need to be built to scale and who knows, maybe Gen AI will get better in many years, but it cannot build something with that level…”

“That's where it gets harder. You know, when you're chasing from 99% accuracy to 99.9. Gen AI still doesn't fully help with that. So you still have to kind of do more typical machine learning”

“I have this prevailing view of human behavior, which is everybody wants two things. They want to be richer and lazier. So they want to do less work and get more economic value, and this is really what Gen AI unlocks, and it's really starting to happen right no…”

“Even though Gen AI allows marketing teams big and small to massively increase their output, it is often not even one percent as effective as one of these elite storyteller founders going on a podcast or just posting stream of consciousness on X.”

“The taste of a product, the design aspect of a product, increasingly AI-centric design, where you are building an AI-infused product, how do you land it? These are non-trivial things. Which I don't think can be automated away.”

“In the old days, to map out a conversation, you just build, like, a gigantic tree, right, of decisions, and that's very hard, because no one likes that experience, and, like, you ask something that's not quite one of the branches, and it just forces you down t…”

“Three years ago with Gen AI, I was like, ah, this is finally the technology that is going to allow education to scale, and we can take all this awesomeness where kids can learn two, five, 10 times better, faster, and get it out to a billion kids.”

“I think you're going to see Pretty much every software, every industry vertical be kind of rewritten around and a gen AI native stack or user interface or technology stack.”

“Many of the fortune 500 global 2000 are still in that experimentation and POC type phase when it comes to Gen.ai. And they're looking to actually deliver real business ROI.”

“Security concerns around Gen AI are preventing agentic deployments, and Gen AI is very difficult to properly secure.”

“When people Are starting to theorize that gen AI can remove teammates, you know, and oh, the designers don't need engineers and the PMs don't need the designers and like everybody thinks they can throw engineering overboard. And I'm like, stop it. Like we all …”

“So, there isn't, like, crazy motes in Gen.AI.”

“Web observability stopped being a thing, not because the web stopped being a thing, but because all observability had to do web. If you were talking to people in 2010 or 2012, they would have talked about cloud observability. Now that's not a term because all …”

“It took Chris 71 days from the exec review to launching a Gen.ai product that gave creators ideas and inspiration for their next video.”

“The end of software was, you know, a meme in many ways. A lot of the best AI products are software meets gen AI.”

“So you can develop right now, you can use Gen AI to make a site that looks like linear. They're old. They're old stuff, but you're not going to make the next linear using Gen.ai.”

“The longer it takes you to generate an artifact with Gen AI but the faster it is to verify if that artifact is actually useful and good, the better Gen AI can change that, that industry or that workflow.”

“I mean, we sat down with the CPO of Grab, Philip Kendall, on my trip there, and they shut down their whole company for a week to just focus on Gen AI training. Like, literally, if you worked at Grab, you had to do something in Gen AI and kind of learn and get …”

“Whenever it's very slow to create an artifact in your space, an image, a text document, and so on, very slow to create it, but very quick to verify its correctness, then Gen AI is going to, like, massively disrupt that space.”

“And if you just look at the headcount resident in those services, legal and accounting and certain types of sales and nursing, and you just kind of go through it all. And you add up just the payroll. For those areas, it's about three and a half to five trillio…”

“Today, I'm actually using it. I don't write customer emails anymore. The Gen AI is good, and I have a unique voice, so usually in the past when I used it, you'd say, ah, that's not good, I have to write it, or have my EA draft something, now I just, it's 90%, …”

“It's actually going to get sprinkled across all businesses to lower costs in call centers or to improve the product in personalization. It's not going to Have a creative destruction effect like the internet did on many industries.”

“I think one of the frustrations with Gen AI, as the technology is commoditizing so quickly, is it's a sustaining innovation. It's actually going to get sprinkled across all businesses to lower costs in call centers or to improve the product in personalization.…”

“If you look at spend on software in the U S right now, it's about half trillion dollars. And software spend a year, if you look at, ah, human-centric services, just payroll, for things where gen AI can probably impact things, it's three and a half to five tril…”

“One of the ones I'm more particularly excited, because we just launched it on Friday, is, ah, one, ah, leveraging Gen AI, which is called Research Assistant.”

“I think Gen AI has the opportunity to Turbo charge this type of translation where the language is natural language, and the answers come in natural language, but along the way, there's traditional database lookups, traditional retrieval, and has the opportunit…”

“I think all of this will shift. In the next six, 12 months, this is all starting already, because in the same way that search changed the rules of engagement with public data, Gen AI is doing the same thing, and the companies that are behind that data are doin…”

“Because enterprises are worried about if they incorporate Gen AI into any of their products or services in a way that they truly depend on them, and at some point lawsuits start to fly, they're exposed, and because of those concerns, it has held back enterpris…”

“So what's really interesting about Gen AI for me is it makes really cool demos, but I actually have a lot of trouble answering the question, like where can we build great products with it and where can't we?”

“I think now we're in a much better place and the people that, that incremental founder that was building in fintech because it was cool is now building a gen AI tool.”