ChatGPT
also referred to as: chat gpt
includes ChatGPT Canvas, ChatGPT Work, ChatGPT Codex, ChatGPT Tasks, ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Search, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, ChatGPT Deep Research, ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Plugins, ChatGPT Voice Mode and 1 more
79 statements across 50 episodes · 34 bullish · 16 bearish · 46 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 847 times in 150 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (130), Alessio Fanelli (74), Akshay Nathan (32), Karina Nguyen (27), Robert McCloy (24), Alex Lupsasca (17), Nathan Lambert (16), Michelle Pokrass (13)
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2026 200 mentions in 34 episodes 6 per episode
- OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- 🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
- ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
- Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- 🔬There Is No AlphaFold for Materials — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
- 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu)
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 430 mentions in 72 episodes 6 per episode
- The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- AI is Eating Search
- ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- 64 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 189 mentions in 35 episodes 5 per episode
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
- The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- 27 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 28 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Jun 20, 2023 negative
Aug 31, 2023
Cheah: AI Engineers Do Not Need ML Math to Build Products
“Frankly, for an AI engineer, you don't need it. You, your main thing that you needed to do was to, frankly, just play around with ChatGPT, or all the alternatives, be aware of the alternatives, because be very mercenary, swap out to Cloudia if it's better for …”
Aug 31, 2023 negative
Oct 20, 2023 neutral
Howard: Modern LLMs like ChatGPT still follow ULMFiT's three-step training framework
“So we generated this three-step system. So step one was train a language model on a big corpus. Step two was fine-tune a language model on a more curated corpus, and step three was further fine-tune that model on a task. And of course, that's what everybody st…”
Nov 3, 2023 positive
Royzen: Users switch to Phind when ChatGPT-4 fails on code
“What really shocks us is that a lot of the people who do that they're coming from ChatGPT. So they tried it in ChatGPT with ChatGPT-IV. It didn't work. Maybe it required like some multi-step reasoning. Maybe it required to like, Some internet context or someth…”
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Jan 5, 2024 bullish
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Lambert: Startups should avoid RLHF unless it offers niche advantage
“I don't really recommend most startups to do it unless it's like going to provide them a clear competitive advantage in their kind of niche. Yeah. Because you're not going to make your model ChatGPT like better than OpenAI or anything like that.”
Jan 11, 2024 bearish
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Apr 27, 2024 negative
Apr 27, 2024 positive
Generative AI is shifting from conversational chatbots to interactive environments
“What I find most fascinating about this idea is that it shifts us away from the perspective of agents, ah, to interact with, to the perspective of environments that we want to interact with. And, ah, while arguably this agent paradigm of the chatbot is, ah, wh…”
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Jul 23, 2024
Aug 2, 2024 positive
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024 negative
Prompting ChatGPT to repeat a word indefinitely leaks verbatim training data
“One of my co-authors, Milad was working on some other random experiments, and he figured out that if you prompt ChatGPT to repeat a word forever, then it will repeat the word many, many, many times in a row, and then like explode and like just start doing rand…”
Sep 17, 2024
ChatGPT's launch caused Postgres bottlenecks by reusing API developer accounts
“Surprisingly there were a lot of Postgres issues when ChatGPT came out because the accounts for like ChatGPT were tied to the accounts in the API. And so you're basically creating a developer account to log into ChatGPT at the time, because it's just what we h…”
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Nov 1, 2024 positive
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Crivello: Early AI Agent Builders Overestimated LLM Capabilities
“I think many people, when they started working on agents, they were very LLM-peeled and ChatGPT-peeled, right? They got ahead of themselves in a way, and as included, and they thought that agents were actually and LLMs were actually more advanced than they act…”
Dec 13, 2024 bullish
Mohan: IDEs evaluate AI models better by tracking post-acceptance edits
“One of the really beautiful parts about our product that is very different than a chat GPT is we can not only see if the acceptance happened, but if something more than the acceptance happened and it happened even more than that, right? Like, let's say you acc…”
Dec 22, 2024 positive
Robicheaux: 2B PaliGemma 2 Beats ChatGPT on MMVP with 47.3%
“The big result, and one of the reasons that I was really excited about this paper, is that they blow everything else away on MMVP. I mean, 47.3, sure, that's nowhere near human accuracy, which again is 94%, but for, you know, two billion language, two billion …”
Dec 24, 2024 neutral
Jan 1, 2025 bullish
Jan 17, 2025 bullish
McAteer: OpenAI o1 is the first model that grows more impressive over time
“O-one is actually the first model where I'm getting more impressed by it the more I use it. So, like, when ChatGPT first came out, right, I think it was GPT-III. And at first it seemed like, oh wow, this is amazing, it can actually create text that sounds like…”
Feb 1, 2025 bullish
Nguyen: ChatGPT Will Evolve Into an Interface That Morphs Based on User Intent
“Chat CPT evolves into this Blank interface, which can morph itself in whatever you trying, like the model should try to like derive your true intent and then modify the interface based on your intent. And then if you like writing, it should become like the mos…”
Feb 1, 2025 bullish
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Mar 11, 2025 bullish
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Apr 21, 2025 neutral
Packer: ChatGPT will likely use sleep-time compute to learn offline
“Like if you activate sleep time compute on a chatbot like ChatGPT, it can like learn about you as you're not on ChatGPT.com. I think that's, you know, kind of what they're probably going to try to do. That's the direction they're going in.”
Jun 10, 2025 negative
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Lloyd: Warp builds native agent because tool-calling integration goes deeper
“The main reason is like, we feel like the integration can go way, way deeper. If warp itself is the thing driving the interaction primarily because of like the, Type of tool calling that we can do, like, directly in Warp.”
Jul 2, 2025 neutral
Morris: ChatGPT could likely have been built using RNNs instead of Transformers
“And I think like, we honestly probably could have gotten this with RNNs. I know like the scaling laws paper shows that RNNs have worse curves for scaling, but probably people would have been like, I bet you could have built chat GPT with a very sophisticated R…”
Jul 2, 2025 neutral
Jack Morris: Fundamental AI science shifted to companies due to academic compute limits
“That's when I think things really started to change in terms of the types of questions you wanted to ask can't always be answered with academic resources. So a lot of the like fundamental kind of like boundary pushing and AI science moved into companies.”
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Marimo AI Completions Access In-Memory Variables and Database Connections
“What's unique about doing it in Marimo is the fact that not only does Marimo see your code, but it sees all the variables in memory and it can also see your database connections, et cetera. So it can really provide rich Rich completions.”
Jul 23, 2025 negative
McCloy: ChatGPT will not pass user prompts to destination websites
“The reason I think it probably won't be the case in the future is for privacy reasons. So I don't think that you will see, at least in the context of the way search is working today inside like a system like ChatWD, I don't think you'll see that it's going to …”
Jul 23, 2025
McCloy: ChatGPT personalization and custom preferences directly alter AI search retrieval and sources
“ChatGPT personalization, memories, just explicit preferences, if you set them up, do definitely affect the results you get. Now, Again, obviously, there's, they're still using traditional search, so the search index itself is not necessarily personalized, but …”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
McCloy: ChatGPT filters out clickbait metadata in favor of descriptive information
“The metadata has been super optimized for human click through, right? So think about like clickbait, think about things that are like, you know, like Creating urgency, especially true in e-commerce, right around sales and things like that. But they're not very…”
Jul 23, 2025 positive
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
McCloy: AI chat queries represent higher commercial intent than Google informational searches
“In chat search people, people don't really do that. People just say, solve the problem for me. What I think is really interesting about that is, like, it's actually the highest intent. Like, it's the most valuable thing you could be doing. Because you're going…”
Jul 23, 2025 positive
McCloy: Enterprise users are outsourcing B2B software vendor bake-offs to ChatGPT
“One specific example that takes people a little bit by surprise is, like, there are a huge number of people doing, like, B to B software bake-offs in chat to VT. You know, if you're at a big company and your boss is like, Hey, we need to buy something to solve…”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
McCloy: ChatGPT holds the most durable consumer presence among AI platforms
“ChatGPT, I would say, by far, in a way, is the thing that people think about as being an AI platform that has the strongest consumer presence and the most durable relationship with consumers.
Right.
So everything else is kind of a distant second.”
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Scott Wu: AI is shifting from text completion tools to autonomous agents
“The first wave of generative AI is what I generally call these text completion products, right? And, you know, that makes a lot of natural sense if you think about it that obviously the interface of a language model is text completion, right? You give it a pre…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Mohan: Post-acceptance code edits provide better training signal than mere acceptance rates
“One of the really beautiful parts about our product that is very different than a chat GPT is we can not only see if the acceptance happened, but if something more than the acceptance happened and it happened even more than that, right? Like, let's say you acc…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Aug 6, 2025 bearish
Palazzolo: News aggregators and summarizers are being displaced by AI and influencers
“If you're a company that's more known for, like, summarizing, like, the daily news, or even, like, having some sort of opinion or analysis, like, now that, you know, people on, like, X who are doing that, or you can just use, like, ChatDBT to send you summary …”
Sep 18, 2025 bearish
Falk: ChatGPT will aggressively enter and replace design prototyping tools
“And candidly, I think that ChatGPT is going to come in and replace a lot of that because that's what they did in a GBT five demo. They were really showing that off. These things are not designed for production. It's just another reason to come to ChatGPT. So I…”
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Rajpal: Pure ChatGPT test conversations lack diversity and realism
“Compared to, let's say, you were asking, like, ChatGPT to generate, you know, these, like, conversations for you. They all kind of have that ChatGPT vibe, and this ends up looking, you know, very diverse and very grounded in, like, your use case and your data.”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Apple Siri routes requests based on the user's ChatGPT subscription tier
“If you sign into your ChatGPT account the Siri integration will actually use your subscription status to decide what type of model to use when it passes things over to ChatGPT. And so if you're you know just a free user you get, you know, the free model. But i…”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Wu: OpenAI has no current plans to become a generic IdP
“Direct answer is like no plans right now, of course but I actually think we currently have some version of this, which is our partnership with Apple because with Apple, you can actually sign in to your ChatGPT account, and some of that identity does carry with…”
Oct 30, 2025 bullish
Oct 30, 2025 bullish
Sands: Walmart and Sam's Club signed up for ChatGPT Agentic Commerce Protocol
“In the last couple of days, Walmart and Sands Club have just signed up to also make their inventory purchasable
Through ChatGPT and the Agentic Commerce Protocol, which, like, I don't think that there is a bigger signal on a big retailer being up for it than W…”
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D
“This year, OpenAI spent seven billion dollars on compute. Only two of that was for all of their inference. The remaining five was R&D. So all of ChatGPT, all eight hundred million users, all of Sora, all of like, all, all the sort of like API volume, two billi…”
Dec 7, 2025 bullish
Dec 11, 2025 positive
Houssier: Grammarly captures cross-app context that ChatGPT cannot access
“Grammarly knows, basically, where you, I say, you're switching from Google Doc to Salesforce. To LinkedIn, and now you're writing an email. So we have this augmented context even more, so like much more precise compared to something like ChatGPT, for example. …”
Dec 11, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Yang: Evaluating Human-AI Code Interaction Requires Compelling Products or Simulators
“From an academic standpoint, it feels like there's two difficult approaches to resolving that. Either you build, like, a really compelling product, like Elmarina, that people have people use consistently, which is, I mean, really tricky in and of itself. Or yo…”
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Weil: True AI acceleration requires native workflow integration, not copy-pasting
“If there was a lesson from what happened over the last year with software engineering, it's that Part of the acceleration from, ah, in software engineering came from better models, but part of it also came from the fact that you now have, ah, AI embedded into …”
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Feb 19, 2026 bearish
Wang: Robotics funding prematurely assumes a 'ChatGPT moment' has happened
“It would probably be on the hardware side, actually, right, and the robotics sector, right, which is, it's, I don't want to say that it's not getting funding, because it's clearly it's sort of non-consensus to almost not invest in robotics at this point, but w…”
Feb 19, 2026
Wang: AI playbook is raising capital for compute, launching apps, repeating
“You raise money for compute. You pour that, or you pour the money into compute. You get some sort of breakthrough. You funnel the breakthrough into your vertically integrated application. That could be chat GPT. That could be cloud code, you know, whatever it …”
May 5, 2026 bullish
AI Proof Generation Shifts Human Scientific Burden to Automated Verification
“Now that we're in this regime where you can just get ChatGPT to tackle thousands of questions at the same time, and it will return proofs for a significant fraction of them. Now, actually the onus is back on the humans to verify all the outputs. And so, yeah, …”
May 5, 2026 bullish
Jun 17, 2026
Jul 10, 2026 bullish
Swyx: Betting on transformer ASICs is safe because architectures persist
“The ChatGPT, like, GPT-III.V-ish architecture has mostly stayed the same this entire time. It's a pretty good bet, man. Like, even if there is a new, Model sometime in the future. The current workloads on existing models, like, four-oh is still being used, rig…”
Jul 10, 2026 negative
Swyx: AI is too volatile for utility-style government regulation
“I think this thing is too volatile to treat as a utility, right? Like imagine if like Edison was like, you know, working on his like electrical stuff and light and Lighting and all that. And you immediately try to regulate it. Like, no, you'll probably wait 50…”
Jul 22, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026
Swyx: Generated Playable 3D Board Game in ChatGPT Using 1.7B Tokens
“So over the weekend, I took like, 30 photos and just threw it into ChatGPT. 1.7 billion tokens later, out comes this site with a fully playable thing with three D block placement and everything because it requires physical blocks and I needed friends to train …”
Jul 28, 2026
Nathan: OpenAI limits sub-agent UI visibility to prevent user overwhelm
“There's another, you know, iteration of this where like you can see exactly what they're doing and things like that, which I think is like, you know, could verge on like overwhelming with information. And so this is like the deliberate trade-off that we've mad…”