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Bryant Chou: I am using AI to replicate myself across company operations
“AI is here and I'm really replicating myself, not just In the products, not just in the technology that we're building, but also in the company, then also in some of the sort of really AI native ways that we're trying to build the company as well.”
Bryant Chou: Generating mass AI websites does not build Google authority
“You can't create a hundred websites and then expect Google to think that, Hey, you're an authoritative source and just creating content for content's sake is not the goal.”
Chou: Ploy will use a CLI rather than MCP for agent integration
“I think we're going to do a CLI with skills. So an MCP would be really good if we had more constrained sort of things. However, I think with the number of things that you can do employ, I think the CLI is going to be the way we do it.”
Chou: Prompts and Guardrails Cannot Fully Eliminate AI Tells in Web Design
“In web design, there's so many AI tells. I would like to say that Floyd eliminates all of them, but you can't necessarily eliminate all of it with all the prompts and guardrails and steering.”
Chou: Most web designers work by finding inspiration rather than pure novelty
“If you go and work with the agency of freelance web designer, some of the best might come up with something incredibly bespoke and unique that no one's ever seen before, but a lot of them, you know, they get inspiration and that's essentially what we're trying…”
Chou: Ploy uses 3,500 curated web design prompts for inspiration
“We've used a collection of models, open AIs, ChatGPT images, but then we've created 3500 prompts for web designs that then Ploy takes inspiration from.”
Chou: Ploy slurps, recreates, and refactors websites in 75 seconds
“And in about 75 seconds, we would have slurped the existing site, recreated all the components, refactored it, and you get this.”
Chou: Ploy spent $750K on tokens building 'Ploy Slurper'
“We spent about I think like 750,000 dollars worth of tokens to create what's called the ploy slurper.”
Tan: AI allows 'nearly nonverbal' technical founders to dominate marketing
“Interestingly, like we're sort of entering this other moment where, because ploy exists, you know, you might have someone who's like, 200 IQ you know, nearly nonverbal, like, codexes. They're able to make some sort of hardware, software that literally no one e…”
Chou: About 12% of the current YC batch uses Ploy
“We've got about like, 12% of the YC batch using Ploy”
Friedman: Ploy generates substantive content upgrades rather than AI slop
“Like, it's not just prettier, which obviously it is. Like, the, obviously, like, the visual design is much better, but actually, the content, It's better too. And we always hear about like AI slop, but like if it was AI slop, that wouldn't have worked.”
Chou: Ploy Automatically Ingests Vintage URLs to Redesign Modern Websites
“So it actually went to the Wayback Machine's URL, understood the contents and then understood the context of your business. And then it was like, oh, cool. We're bringing this business back. Let's go and redesign it for the modern era.”