AI

“This feels like when we're talking about AI, we're talking about the internet. We're not going to talk, we'll use the words AI, like, 20 years from now, because it will just be how everything operates.”

“And I would say historically ghost writers could only service maybe three or four clients. And I want to create a more automated process such that ghost writers can service 10 to 15 clients and the quality of the content doesn't change at all. And to me, you d…”

“And I think kind of in a meta way, there are agencies that can absolutely help agencies run their operations better, and they'll do so with a mix of automations, offshoring, and AI, which I think will be a game changer for agency businesses in the future, and …”

“The world has changed since 2014, 2016. There's AI now, right? So like a business that was not viable in 2016 might be viable in 2023 because of, I don't know, some automations that you can do. There's creators who are hungry to do deals with startups and who …”

“All this AI stuff will, like, the whole designer-engineer split seems weird to me too, to be honest, because, like, the designer is really having to, like, write code now and then the engineer, like, it's, like, actually really, like, everyone is a designer.”

“I want to get Gummer to a place where the average person works like an hour a day. Maybe they make like 800 dollars an hour but they work like an hour a day. They're producing an hour, you know, 800 plus dollars of value. They're assisted with AI to write thei…”

“In theory, it actually should be easier today with AWS instead of servers that are on premise with AI. It should be easier to be capital efficient as a technology business today and Then it was in the seventies, eighties, nineties, and 2000, when you also had …”

“And over time, I also believe that taste and creativity will get more and more important as technology and AI accelerate the pace at which software can be built or content and stories can be created.”

“This is where we're at with AI, an evolution of technology that will enable structural change to every single industry, much like what software did over the last 20 years, but also the possibility to completely change what work looks like and what jobs become …”

“To put a bow on Vibe Marketing, I think it only gets more important as time goes on, given customers expect speed and immediacy more than ever before, and as AI gives businesses the ability to shorten the distance between customer idea and idea being implement…”

“Expert opinions are safe for now. Entertainment is safe for now. Unopinionated research is toast. The bar for standing out is so much higher today, and the way to stand out is by being uniquely human with your content, which means flexing your voice, flexing y…”

“A cracked engineer with AI can probably rebuild Distro in a day or a weekend.”

“The speed to create most software products, if you have a great engineer using AI, has been shortened to days or weeks instead of months or quarters.”

“Most companies are dipping their pinky toes in right now, and when you ask yourself why so little, the answer is because that's what's comfortable. Add inefficiency here, tell a friend you're AI fluent there, post on social about how AI is a game changer, or A…”

“This question would have come off as unreasonable for Toby to ask pre-AI, but with AI, the expectation of your team to get more work done with no more or even fewer people is all of a sudden totally realistic.”

“The fact that employees are going to be evaluated based on their AI usage is an amazing idea, and it is one of the only ways you can truly create positive pressure for your team to take the technology seriously.”

“I believe that AI is going to be the great equalizer for entrepreneurship, enabling more businesses to be created more cheaply than ever before, but it is also going to be the great de-equalizer, creating a massive barbell between businesses that fully embrace…”

“AI is going to have a massive impact on the margins of agency businesses long term. As this technology, being AI, lowers the cost of intelligence, agentic workflows that support smaller agency teams will start giving these businesses the type of leverage that …”