Kevin Weil
21 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2024 by Kevin Weil · said 21 times in 12 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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- Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
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Everything said about Kevin Weil, oldest first
Nov 6, 2024 bullish
Weil: Frontier AI increasingly generates answers that evaluators prefer over humans
“The models are getting to the point where they can often beat humans at certain tasks. Like, people prefer the model's answers to a human's answers, and so if you're humans writing your evals, like, you know, so what does that mean?”
Nov 6, 2024 bullish
Weil predicts today's cutting-edge AI will feel like garbage within 12 months
“And, you know, the stuff that's happening today that we're working on, that you guys are working on, it all feels like magic. 12 months from now, we're going to be like, can you believe we use that garbage? Because it's going to, I mean, that's how fast this t…”
Nov 6, 2024
Weil: AI product design fundamentally differs based on model reliability tiers
“You don't know whether it's going to be like, 60% good, or 90% good, or 99% good, and the product that you would build that would make The sense with something that works 60% of the time is super different than 90 or 99% of the time, right?”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: Current AI models are eval-limited rather than intelligence-limited
“I think there's a very real sense in which models today are not intelligence limited. They're eval limited. They can actually do much more and be much more correct on a wider range of things than they are today, and it's really about sort of teaching them.”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: AI product development fundamentally differs because capabilities shift every two months
“Normally when you're building product, you're building off of kind of a fixed technology base, right? You know what you have to work with, and you're trying to build the best product you can. Here it's like every two months computers can do something computers…”
Nov 6, 2024
Apr 10, 2025 bearish
Weil: Prompt engineering will become obsolete as AI matures
“I want to kill the idea that you have to be a good prompt engineer. I think if we do our jobs, that stops being true. You know, it's just one of those, like, sharp edges of models that experts can learn, but then you just, over time, you shouldn't need to know…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: OpenAI image model understands complex multi-image spatial instructions
“The model is, is really capable at emulating style or understanding what, you know, it's very good at instruction following. That's actually something that I think people, I'm starting to see people discover with it, but you can do very complex things. You can…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Weil: Organizations should stay PM-light to prevent micromanagement
“Too many PMs causes problems. You know, we'll like fill the world with decks and ideas versus execution. So I think that the, I think it's a good thing when you have a PM that has that is working with maybe slightly too many engineers, because it means that th…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: Future AI will pair broad foundation models with custom evals
“I think the future is really gonna be incredibly smart, broad based models. That are fine tuned and tailored with company specific or use case specific data so that they perform really well on company specific or use case specific things. And you're going to m…”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Weil: Developers Building on the Edge of Model Limits Should Persist
“If you're building And the product that you're building is kind of right on the edge of the capabilities of the models. Keep going, because you're doing something right. Because you give it another couple months, and the models are going to be great. And sudde…”
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Weil: Model accuracy levels dictate fundamentally different product designs
“If the model gets it right, 60% of the time, you build a very different product than if the model gets it right, 95% of the time, versus if the model gets it right, 99.5% of the time. And so there's also something that you have to get really into the weeds on …”
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Apr 10, 2025
Weil: Teams should question social products that fail internal dogfooding
“Especially social things because you have a very tight network as a company socially. So you know each other and your experts in your product, hopefully. And so there's some sense in which if you're doing something social and it's not taking off internally, yo…”
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Apr 10, 2025
Weil: OpenAI manages 400 million weekly users with 30-40 support staff
“With 400 plus weekly 400 plus million weekly active users, we get, you know, a lot of inbound tickets, right? I don't know how many customer support folks we have, but it's not very many. 3040, I'm not sure. Way, way smaller than you would have at any comparab…”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Weil: OpenAI minimizes scaffolding because rapid advances erase model limits
“We don't spend that much time building scaffolding around the parts that don't match that because our general mindset is in two months, there's going to be a better model and it's going to blow away whatever, you know, the current set of limitations are.”