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How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 6:58 Roman Ugarte Uh, people who, you know, were daily driving ChatGPT or like a chat interface, switching all of their
- ▶ 43:08 Roman Ugarte In some ways, ChatGPT was like this.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 40:21 Anish Acharya But if you ask them if they use ChatGPT today, most people will say yes.
- ▶ 45:03 Anish Acharya I think ChatGPT work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:22 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, sounds like basically the three described there that you're excited about are, um, Instinct, uh, GrokBot and ChatGPT work.
- ▶ 58:32 Lenny Rachitsky And that, I think about that a lot these days, because there's so much, like there's co-work, there's chat GPT work, there's cursor, there's Crockbot, and it's crazy how quickly one can switch from one to the other.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:20 Lenny Rachitsky Tara leads product for both Codex and JATGPT work at OpenAI.
- ▶ 29:23 Lenny Rachitsky Um, I want to talk about ChatGPT the app briefly. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine one of the hardest parts of your job is balancing this hundred billion MAU product, ChatGPT, maybe the most successful consumer product in history with Codex, which is this new thing and other new things that you guys want to try. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:31 Tara Seshan Yeah, I think one of the most interesting things here is that we, we, one of the goals of launching work in ChatGPT web and launching it in the desktop app and bringing these things together was to look at those billion people who are… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:16 Lenny Rachitsky And you could do that through, I imagine work or can you do it through, through all the surfaces, codecs, work chat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:16 Lenny Rachitsky And you could do that through, I imagine work or can you do it through, through all the surfaces, codecs, work chat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:09 Tara Seshan One thing that we've been thinking about a lot in product building, especially with ChatGPT work in this new era is how knowledge work and coding are actually fundamentally different. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:36 Tara Seshan Ooh, um, I mean, of course, my favorite AI product is China TVT and using cool sites and visualize stuff in, in codex, which is amazing.
- ▶ 1:19:18 Tara Seshan Anything I want to plug and point people to, maybe they should use the ChatGPT desktop app. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:23 Tara Seshan Um, they should use ChatGPT in the web and try work. 4 times in the scene
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 29:09 Brian Halligan They start in Gemini or they start in Anthropoc or they start in ChatGPT and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:22 Brian Halligan And this isn't a completely perfect analogy, but like you think of OpenAI and ChetGPT and its consumer app is doing incredible and they're doing lots and lots and lots and lots of other things.
- ▶ 1:09:07 Brian Halligan Okay, what's even better about it is, is you, because you can go to ChatGPT and say, what would Lenny think about this?
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 21:31 Sherwin Wu The other thing is, I, I, so this is more, uh, an observation, but my sense is with a lot of these AI tools available to managers, so less like writing code, but just things like ChatGPT with organizational knowledge, like being able to do… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Sherwin Wu It, it, it, it's probably like, um, uh, you know, like the, the, the months after we launched ChatGPT, the craziness that was.
- ▶ 35:29 Sherwin Wu I haven't tried this yet, but I wonder what would happen if I ask, uh, ChatGPT hooked up to company knowledge, you know, like, what are the active blockers?
- ▶ 45:04 Sherwin Wu Like, if you look, if you rewind back to twenty-twenty-two, right when ChatGPT launched, um, these models were pretty raw, and there was, like, all this product scaffolding and, and things, especially in the developer space, to basically…
- ▶ 1:00:08 Sherwin Wu Um, uh, we also want, you know, like, uh, we've recently been testing more of like the sign in with ChatGPT, you know, uh, product as well. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:27 Sherwin Wu Install ChatGP and connect it to a couple of your, you know, internal data sources, Notion, Slack, GitHub, and see what it can and cannot do.
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 24:39 Lazar Yovanovich By the time you do all of these three, you're already at a level of clarity that you wouldn't have if you just sat with an empty piece of paper, or maybe, uh, maybe chatting just with ChatGPT, but not taking action.
- ▶ 31:40 Lazar Yovanovich At that point, I either ask the tool that I'm using, or I'll maybe let's say go to chat GPT or whatever, and ask
- ▶ 40:55 Lazar Yovanovich Again, I'm not educated, but that's, if you ever read like a stream of ChatGPT's thinking in thinking models, you see exactly what I mean.
- ▶ 47:44 Lazar Yovanovich ChatGPT is good at it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:52 Lazar Yovanovich I would literally go to ChatGPT, as I said, and brain dump into it in my, just type lovable GPT, lovable PRD generator.
- ▶ 1:10:07 Lazar Yovanovich You download it, and then I upload it to Cloud, just regular Cloud or ChatGPT, and I'm like,
- ▶ 1:17:33 Lazar Yovanovich So you could go to ChatGPT and be like, generate an image of XYZ.
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- ▶ 1:18:59 Dr. Becky Kennedy Yeah, whether it's, you know, Claude or ChatGPT, I, I find the way I can work rapidly to get my ideas into a place, and I, I show my team how I use it, and I really do think that people who get the most out of prompting, like, there is a,… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 7:10 Marc Andreessen And so there, there was this, you know, kind of, you know, when, when there was a chat GPT moment, you know, three years ago, it was only, by the way, only three years ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:42 Marc Andreessen You know, like chat GPT is like almost certainly a better doctor than your doctor today, but like chat GPT can't get a license to practice medicine, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:05 Marc Andreessen You know, the other side of it is, you know, if you had told me three years ago, um, you know, that in the, uh, you know, kind of Christmas of ChatGPT that, like, within basically a year to year and a half, there would be, you know, five… 2 times in the scene
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 2:55 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by TenWeb, the company that pioneered AI website building before ChatGPT.
- ▶ 1:18:43 Lenny Rachitsky And then there's going to be a post out by the time this comes out around ChatGPT's app store, which is going to let you submit apps.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 2:51 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by TenWeb, the company that pioneered AI website building before ChatGPT.
- ▶ 8:02 Zevi Arnovitz Um, GPT projects. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:32 Zevi Arnovitz Basically what happened was I formulated the backbone of this, uh, with the CTO and it was basically within the system prompt of the CTO project that I had within GPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:52 Lenny Rachitsky And you said that your CTO, so you used to use ChatGPT prompt, uh, to have a CTO in there.
- ▶ 39:37 Zevi Arnovitz But what's even cooler and something that I'm really proud of is I will usually do multiple reviews and I'll have Codex, which is ChatGPT's competitor to Cloud Code, as well as cursor open, and I will have each of them review the code.
- ▶ 50:35 Zevi Arnovitz And like I said, just start at GPT, start in GPT, um, tell it what your idea is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:44 Lenny Rachitsky You can feed chat to BT to help you prepare for interviews, do, uh, mocks online.
- ▶ 1:12:13 Zevi Arnovitz And this was also like how I did things before ChatGPT.
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 2:20 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by TenWeb, the company that pioneered AI website building before ChatGPT.
- ▶ 57:54 Lenny Rachitsky And emojis sometimes kind of implies use AI to generate this thing because JGPD loves emojis.
- ▶ 1:19:31 Sam Lessin These guys came out, and what they do, they're like, look, if we're really trying to match up humans, like, call it Tinder T.O., one of the best sources of information to do that is their ChatGPT histories. 4 times in the scene
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 32:23 Lenny Rachitsky And he said, that's the number one predictor of success is the CEO chatting with chat GPT, Claude, whatever, uh, many times a day.
- ▶ 35:13 Kiriti Badam For example, in ChatGPT, right?
- ▶ 59:33 Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) Even with consumer products, right, you don't talk to ChatGPT the same way
- ▶ 1:06:15 Kiriti Badam Uh, we already do this in terms of ChatGPT Pulse, which kind of gives you this daily update of things you might care about.
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 43:40 Jason Lemkin AI is like, you know, ask Claude or chat for a variant of your best email.
- ▶ 1:14:30 Jason Lemkin People spend hours, our best, who are our best therapists today as we record this chat GPT is our best, the best therapist on planet earth.
- ▶ 1:21:08 Jason Lemkin I literally just, when I was in London, I built a whole app where you can sell, you can practice selling Harvey, cursor, Replit, and ChatGPT enterprise, and it works.
- ▶ 1:36:50 Jason Lemkin Maybe it's too late to build the next chat GBT on the cheap.