Russell Kaplan

8 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2026 by Russell Kaplan · across every show →

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Mar 27, 2026 bullish
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Kaplan: AI will cause an explosion in small businesses
“One thing I'll go on the record on is I think there's going to be an explosion in small businesses. I think AI is actually like an extremely small business enabling technology in particular”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 47:15 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 positive
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Kaplan: Devin became top contributor to own codebase by Summer 2024
“It took us until Summer of 2024 for Devon to become the number one contributor to its own code base, like which was like the first real milestone.”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 9:55 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Insight
Kaplan: Software engineers should never let AI agents idle overnight
“At Tesla, we had one mantra, which was you know, never go to sleep while the GPUs are idling. You know, if you let your cluster idle overnight, that's just a huge waste of resources. Just kick off some experiments, you know, before you go to bed so you can wak…”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 19:49 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 positive
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Kaplan: Cognition measured 6x to 12x productivity gains with Devin in 2024
“And, you know, relatively quickly by like late 20, 24, we were measuring You know, somewhere between a six to 12 x productivity gain for those types of projects. Meaning that, you know, one hour of human time spent managing Devin was worth like six to 12 hours…”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 24:15 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
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Kaplan: Software will enter hyper-deflation and output will jump 1000x
“We're going to enter this like hyper deflationary cycle of software where it's so easy to build. It's so abundant. That doesn't mean that people are going to, you know, stop producing software. They're actually going to produce thousands of times more software…”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 22:21 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Kaplan: Cognition hires 17- and 18-year-olds for engineering
“The engineering team, we have seventeen-year-olds, we have eighteen-year-olds, we have really young folks, and then but we'll take anyone at any age as long as they're ready to grind and ready to have a big impact.”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 2:21 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Kaplan: Software engineers must reset their AI workflows every three months
“I mean, every three months you have to throw out your previous experience and build new experience because the tools get so much better.”
Russell Kaplan Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 6:19 How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
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Kaplan: AI will trigger an explosion in new small businesses
“I actually think one thing I'll go on the record on is I think there's gonna be an explosion in small businesses.”
Russell Kaplan Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 4:27 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
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