large language model

also referred to as: large language models · llm

12 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 7, 2023 by Ryan Glasgow · across every show →

Everything said about large language model, oldest first

Sep 7, 2023 neutral
Insight
A startup's current AI model may be surpassed within three to twelve months
“And so I think for any startup, given the advancements in the LLM field, the current model you're using might be the right model today, but three months from now, 12 months from now, there's a good chance that another model might actually surpass the current m…”
Ryan Glasgow Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 26:34 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Sep 7, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Large language models currently fail at basic math and quantitative reasoning
“Right now a lot of these models fall flat and for an application like ours and for a lot of applications out there, that's kind of a pretty glaring omission. You know, these models are fantastic at summarization. They're really good at generating text based on…”
Kevin Mandich Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 1:06:22 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Sep 7, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Agentic AI workflows are technically feasible today but face reliability hurdles
“Based on what we've seen today in the boundaries of the LLMs today is that we could, based on what we have tested with the models, actually build that now. And we are seeing the sophistication, the capability of the models to build that now. I think the roadbl…”
Ryan Glasgow Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 1:14:55 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Sep 7, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
The next 12 to 18 months of AI will target hallucinations and math
“To your original question, I think issues like those, hallucinations, lack of quant answering, those are probably going to be the major things that get released over the next couple years. I don't know what that looks like. You know, it might be an LLM that's …”
Kevin Mandich Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 1:09:55 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Sep 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Siroker: Thousands of multi-billion-dollar vertical LLM application companies will emerge
“There's whole categories of companies that are going to be cat, you know, Category defining independent successful big public multi-billion dollar companies that are just applications of large language models in a specific domain for a specific user with a gre…”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 42:55 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
Nov 30, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Persistent memory for LLMs will take much longer to solve than expected
“And so I am beyond Fascinated and intrigued by the research that's taking place around memory and being able to reference things from previous conversations, but I think it's going to take way longer than we expect.”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 1:13:12 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Nov 30, 2023
Insight
LLMs are poor at direct arithmetic but excel at natural language translation
“These things are really bad at doing math because they write compelling text, but they're really good at translating language, natural language to code.”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 45:15 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Prediction Held up
LLM inference costs will decrease significantly in relatively short order
“I think you're gonna see the cost of inference tend to go down. Inference is the cost to actually serve and run the model. I think you're gonna see those things go down in relatively short order.”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 1:11:37 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Insight
LLMs are creative idea expanders, not Q&A engines
“And as we were experimenting with the technology, it became clear this isn't a simple question and answer oriented technology. It really is a way to help ideas come to life, to really help exploratory ideas manifest. It takes your imagination and expands it in…”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 3:20 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Insight
Masad: Training small models is easier than leveraging LLM capabilities correctly
“In my opinion, training models, especially smaller models, is easier than figuring out how to leverage the large language model capabilities correctly.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 47:18 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 29, 2024 neutral
Insight
Habib: Most impactful enterprise AI sits between raw APIs and generic copilots
“And the most impactful use cases really sit in between kind of those two poles, but it is really hard, expensive, and time consuming to connect large language models with customers' data, with AI guardrails, with business users and business logic.”
May Habib Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 9:42 Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Stauch: LLMs do not need to improve further to build a massive business
“I'm really happy with where the models are at today because they don't have to get any better for us to build a massive business. How they work today is actually good enough for our use case.”
Jake Stauch Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 44:42 Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
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