LLMs
10 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 27, 2024 by Rahul Roy-Chowdhury · across every show →
Everything said about LLMs, oldest first
Jun 27, 2024
Roy-Chowdhury: LLM boom triggered Grammarly's product rethink and CEO transition
“When LLMs became widely deployed, I saw that as a massive tailwind that increased the ability for us to deliver an incredibly powerful solution to our users. So right around the time when LLMs were becoming widespread and we could all see that this was an oppo…”
Jul 18, 2024 neutral
Maples: LLM wrapper startups must have distribution advantages to survive
“These companies that are just, you know, people pejoratively say rappers on LLMs. But another way to think about that would be if you're one of those, you have to have a strategy that's distribution led. You have to have an advantage in distribution. Otherwise…”
Aug 29, 2024 neutral
Jan 24, 2026 positive
White: Founders should combine LLMs with deterministic tools like knowledge graphs
“If I was giving a recommendation, it would be look at all of the different forms in which we use AI, and some of those are rule-based systems, some of those are the comp, like, something super exciting to me is the combination of knowledge graphs together with…”
Jan 24, 2026 bullish
Hoffman: Even technical experts are severely underutilizing LLMs
“I can literally, I would win this bet. I could literally say everyone in this audience, including the technical super smart trap is not using LLMs to the extent that they could to empower themselves. Like we are under using these things right now.”
Jan 31, 2026 neutral
Masad: Autonomous background agents will require new programming UIs beyond chat
“I don't think we've invented the UI for how to mix and match these LLMs and how to program them. So as much as I am a big believer in natural language-based programming, I think at some point as agents get better and they're like working most of the time in th…”
Jan 31, 2026 positive
Hoffman: Future computing education will center on probabilistic concepts
“I think what's going to happen is we're going to bring in a set of other computational concepts. I think it'll be probabilistic concepts because actually most of like LLMs and everything else is very interesting. It's probabilistic.”
Jan 31, 2026 neutral
Jan 31, 2026 positive
Masad: Great vertical AI businesses should treat the LLM as the primary user
“You can pick any vertical, and if you want to build like a really great business, just think about building your user, your first user is the LLM. Think about building that habitat for LLM to live in to create like amazing experiences.”