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Ben Firshman

7 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 28, 2024 by Ben Firshman · across every show →

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Feb 28, 2024 positive
Insight
Firshman: Software and CLIs must prioritize low latency for physical-like responsiveness
“Software should feel more like something that's real, where you touch, you pull a physical lever, and the physical lever moves, you know. And I've taken that lesson of kind of human interface to software a ton. You know, it's all about kind of low latency, it …”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 2:21 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Firshman: Replicate has 2M total users, not all developers
“Two million, I think that got mangled actually by, it's two million users. Not all those people are developers, but a lot of them are developers, yeah.”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 36:02 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Firshman: Replicate's API business originated from PixRay's NFT creator
“It was the creator of Pix Ray. Like it was, he generated NFT art. And so he like made a bunch of art with these models and was, you know, selling these NFTs effectively. And I think lots of people in his community were doing similar things. And like, he then r…”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 33:17 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Opinion
Firshman: Building Fig and Docker Compose in Python was a mistake
“We used Python, which was a big mistake, where Python's really hard to get booting up fast, because you have to load up the whole Python runtime before it can run anything.”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 2:54 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Firshman: Indie hackers are among Replicate's largest spending customers
“Like a lot of these indie hackers are some of our largest customers, like alongside some of our biggest customers that you would think would be would be you know, spending a lot more money than them”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 42:00 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Firshman: Llama 2 release was Replicate's biggest week of growth ever
“Llama II was, like, our biggest week of growth ever, because, like, tons of people wanted to tinker with it and run it.”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 39:20 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Insight
Firshman: Docker's value is its agreed-upon standard, not its software
“I think the magic of Docker is not really in the software. It's just like the standard that people have agreed on, like, here are a bunch of keys for a JSON document, basically. And you know, that was the magic of, like, the metaphor of real containerization a…”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 45:38 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
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