AI tools

“It probably wouldn't change what's possible, but it would really, really change like ease of adoption for people who maybe aren't as in the weeds on AI tools.”

“When I think about the optimal adoption of these AI tools, it seems wrong to focus on in-year ROI, and it seems right to focus on two-year, three-year ROI. Now, inherently hard to know what two or three years is gonna look like, but if we look at the history, …”

“Even if you have some equity, even if you deeply care about the mission, you're not deeply incentivized day in and day out to try new AI tools and push yourself to work better and faster and smarter.”

“I think 20, 26 is going to be insane. It's already a little insane on that fund because we're seeing a lot of the big players move from kind of subsidy based request based pricing to straight up API pricing, consumption based pricing and I haven't seen a ton o…”

“And I think in that you start to see more of a bimodal distribution of engineers, right? You start to see like, wow, there's this subset of people that they really get it. Like they're all in and they've clearly invested the hours needed to learn these tools a…”

“Individual scientists who are using AI tools are benefiting because they are producing more papers. They are getting more grants accepted. But science as a whole is narrowing.”