Discord
also referred to as: discords
11 statements across 9 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Eugene Cheah · said 204 times in 83 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (34), Ian Webster (10), Eugene Cheah (9), Alex Krentsel (8), Alessio Fanelli (7), Jeremy Howard (6), Raiza Martin (5), Sam Julien (4)
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2026 31 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
- Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ⚡️Context Graphs: according to the authors — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital
- Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 64 mentions in 32 episodes 2 per episode
- Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
- The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- A Technical History of Generative Media
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 63 mentions in 32 episodes 2 per episode
- [Paper Club] Berkeley Function Calling Paper Club! — Sam Julien, Writer
- How NotebookLM Was Made
- [LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
- A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- [Paper Club] 🍓 On Reasoning: Q-STaR and Friends!
- How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 46 mentions in 5 episodes 9 per episode
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Discord, oldest first
Aug 31, 2023 positive
Aug 31, 2023 positive
RWKV Community Built Multimodal Vision Models Using MiniGPT-4 Architecture
“There is actually another project internally on the discord where it's Doing vision, ah, vision modeling, and this based on the, ah, is it, mini GPT-Fall paper, where, where you have an image model, put everything inside the latent space, and then you have the…”
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Wang: LlamaIndex reached 600,000 monthly downloads by September 2023
“And since you're fundraising Post, which was in June. And now it's September, so it's been about three months. You've actually gained 50% in, in terms of stars and followers. You've three X your download count to 600,000 a month and your discord membership has…”
Oct 20, 2023 neutral
Oct 25, 2024 neutral
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Martin: NotebookLM Discord reports detect server outages faster than internal monitoring
“I think, honestly, like our fastest way that we've been able to find out if like the servers are down or there's just an influx of people being like, it says system unable to answer, anybody else getting this? And I'm like, all right, let's go. And it actually…”
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Ian Webster: Discord's Clyde was built as a social bot, not a helpful bot
“The interesting thing about Clyde was that it wasn't really meant to be a, necessarily a helpful bot, but instead more of a social bot, like a bot that would just like be in your channel and, you know, help people interact and that kind of thing.”
May 20, 2026 negative
Jun 22, 2026 positive
Fredrikson: Gray Swan's Discord red teaming community has 15,000 members
“It's a really great community. Like, 15,000 people come and hang out on the Discord server. Not all of them take part in every competition, but a lot of good data and good signal is provided to, you know, the upstream model developers through, through that com…”
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Cohen: Slack is S-tier for agent interfaces, while Telegram and WhatsApp lag
“So I think S tier would be Slack. And then Discord, Teams, and then goes like Telegram, and then WhatsApp. They're very, very limited in what you can do, and it's hard, like, you have to have your own phone number if you want, like, a decent experience.”
Aug 15, 2026 positive
Krentsel: Exo autonomously re-architected its Discord adapter, cutting costs by 96%
“We asked it, Hey, I noticed, I asked, Hey, but how much did the last message cost in the discord adapter?
And it was like, it was.
It's like, are you serious?
16 cents.
That's actually crazy.
Like.
Go work on driving that down.
And so it went and re-architecte…”