Prompt

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Tan: Users who do not write prompts fall below the API line
“Unless you have your own prompts and you can write it for yourself, like you are You know, below the API line for some PM or developer that is not you who like will not understand you will not understand your needs will not understand what you uniquely care ab…”
Garry Tan May 8, 2026 ▶ 35:24 Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: AI splits engineering into prompt-writers and verifiers
“Engineering gets split into the engineering manager type person who's writing the prompts, and the technician is doing the verification.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 31:23 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
McDermott: Enterprise AI Simulates Memory via Context Window Summaries
“I think we're experiencing memory through putting really good summaries into the context window, right, or into the prompt.”
Adrian McDermott Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 32:59 Zendesk's Adrian McDermott: AI's Customer Service Potential, Adoption Cycle, Scale vs. Orchestration
20VC Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Shlomo: Base44 processes tens of thousands of prompts per minute
“Nowadays we get, like, tens of thousands of prompts, like, a minute or whatever in tandem, and so we measure the sentiment”
Maor Shlomo Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 38:02 Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Insight
Misra: Adding context to prompts reduces LLM prediction entropy
“The moment you add more context. You make the prompt information rich. The prediction entropy reduces.”
Vishal Misra Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 7:28 Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
Sam Lessin: Public prompts prevent creators from building moats on Sora
“Those prompts are all public, Brit. So no one can create a competitive advantage in the content of the prompts. Like if anything, the whole design is then to rip them.”
Sam Lessin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 24:38 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Welser: Current LLM systems are inherently sycophantic
“So right now these systems are sycophantic. They are, they're based on our prompts. They're going to take what we say and give us back what we've asked, and then we're going to iterate.”
William Welser IV Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 2:22 Consider You Might Be Wrong: His Tattoo Runs His Company
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: AI prompts are programs for an undocumented, error-tolerant API
“Prompts are tiny programs, which is more common today, but I think, yeah, at least I articulated it went viral a while ago, and, but they're programs in a hidden API. Because normally you have an API that is fully documented, but very error intolerant, right? …”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 25:46 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Shipper: Every codifies executive editorial feedback into AI prompts for writers
“One of my big goals for us last quarter was don't repeat yourself. So I don't want to ever say the same thing in a meeting twice. If I can help it so for us at every, like one of the big parts of every is we have a daily newsletter and I'm spending a lot of ti…”
Dan Shipper Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 24:48 The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
LENNY'S PODCAST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wilkinson: Prompt engineering will become obsolete as AI elicits intent
“And I think now people are saying people need to learn how to prompt, which I think is very true for the tool set right now, but I don't know how relevant that is in the future because I think we're still, again, in the palm trio phase. I think that the AIs wi…”
Andrew Wilkinson Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 59:11 I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
Greg Isenberg: Repeating an AI prompt weekly signals a standalone software product
“If you're repeating the same prompt weekly, that's a product in, in hiding in plain sight.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 6:12 How I Use AI & Reddit to Find $1M+ Startup Ideas (FULL Blueprint)
Chennapragada: Prompts are the new dropdown menus for natural language interfaces
“Prompt itself is a new construct, and that's a new way, that's a new UI element, just like a dropdown was or a menu was.”
Aparna Chennapragada May 18, 2025 ▶ 19:22 Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
a16z Insight
Appenzeller: Natural language prompts are the narrow waist abstraction of AI
“I think we have the waste, the narrow waste. I think it's the prompt.”
Guido Appenzeller May 16, 2025 ▶ 39:11 Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shulman: The term 'prompt' will disappear within six to twelve months
“I hope that, you know, in, in six months from now, or 12 months from now, we're not using the word prompt. There are just far more intuitive ways to interact with the music, and we shouldn't be guiding you we should be listening to you if that makes sense.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 39:29 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Insight
Field: Design requires iterative AI loops because prompts cannot capture full context
“In the design context one thing that really matters a lot is the iterative loop and being able to keep going back and forth to an agent and give more instructions over time. If you just kind of like go to first principles here, there's so much that you're not …”
Dylan Field Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 5:05 No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chase: LLM prompts will likely converge as models become more intelligent
“I do think the prompts will probably start to converge in the sense that if you think the models are getting more and more intelligent than like, hopefully these small idiosyncratic sees don't matter as much.”
Harrison Chase Mar 28, 2024 ▶ 15:05 No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase
Evans: AI prompts are just a return to the command line
“And so this point is a command line again. And this is Bill Gates's point that GUIs replace command lines. Well, you get, you've just given me a command line now. That's what a prompt is.”
Benedict Evans Oct 22, 2023 ▶ 10:19 Bundling/Unbundling AI
NO PRIORS Opinion
Sankar: Chat is a limiting interface; prompts are meant for developers
“Chat is a massively limiting interface, you know, at the limit prompts are for developers.”
Shyam Sankar Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 16:49 No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Butcher: AI output quality will still depend on creator talent
“The ability to create prompts, there's still going to be differentiated outputs based on the talent of the person who is using the technology.”
Jack Butcher Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 55:13 Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack Butcher
Fogg: Behavior requires motivation, ability, and a prompt converging simultaneously
“Behavior happens when three things come together at the same moment. Motivation, ability, and prompt.”
BJ Fogg Jun 23, 2020 ▶ 8:31 #86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change

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