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Eric Ries: Vibe coding will cause a Chernobyl-style disaster
“Like this, the vibe coding era is gonna be remembered for a Chernobyl style disaster is my prediction. People are vibe coding software that they do not understand. And it's only a matter of time with all the hype that's being poured into this right now. It is …”
Hazarkhani: Autonomous 24-hour digital employees will arrive before 2027
“Yeah, I would be more bullish than that person. I would say that it's actually much sooner.”
Ries: Developers investing in craftsmanship will run circles around vibe coders
“I think in the long run, people who invest now in craftsmanship, in the understanding of software principles, architectural principles, artistic principles, whatever the thing is, are going to be so much better off. They're going to wind up being like incredib…”
Cheney: Founders have a five-year window to start AI implementation businesses
“I had somebody asked me the other day, how many more years do you think this type of business could be launched and started? And my answer was five.”
Eliason: AI agents will be the internet's biggest consumers within years
“We are entering into a new era of internet commerce and internet like interactions where within a few years, the biggest transactors, the biggest consumers on the internet are going to be AI agents.”
Cera: AI will progress to autonomous agents trading directly with agents
“There's a second phase that's darker, which is like agents selling to agents because now the AIs know what they want. So that gets weird. I haven't really thought through too much, but in that phase of the business, if it's two LLM selling to each other, servi…”
Mohrer: AI puts software abstraction layers and niche SaaS tools at risk
“The notion of abstraction layers, I think are at risk from AI. So what do I mean by that? Whereas I previously like use a SAS tool that does a certain thing to achieve a goal. Now I just asked the AI to build it from scratch. And it's like, I'm not gonna repla…”
AI will soon run PressW projects from sales to completion autonomously
“Technically speaking, I think we are approaching the point where our business could go from one sales call to a finished project. With very, very little human in the loop, basically just prompting a nudge.”
Santos: Zero-cost AI will create media made entirely for self-consumption
“I'm more of a believer that there's going to be sort of new behaviors that you can't see just yet. And this is one of them, right? Which is if cost near zero, then literally everyone can do it. But if everyone can do it, then of course, you know, the, who's go…”
Foster: Zapier will likely always rely on external LLMs
“I think, you know, we will probably always depend on you know, external LLMs for large parts of this.”
Lieberman says Tenex's top output-based engineer will make $1M next year
“Our clients pay us based on output, and our engineers are paid on output as well. And the reason that is so valuable is we can hire truly the best engineers I've ever worked with, because just as an example, like our best engineer will make a million bucks in …”
Shim: Detecting AI-generated content will be almost impossible in 1-2 years
“I do believe in about the next year or two, it is going to be almost impossible to figure out, is this AI generated or not?”
Shim: AI out-of-office gap-filling assistants will arrive within 6-12 months
“That I think is going to happen really quickly. Like I'd say the next six to 12 months.”
Prediction: Messenger will replace email and websites within seven years
“Like, the potential of bots and of messenger is still by far 90%, 95% of it is untapped. We think that messenger is gonna become the central hub of communication between businesses and customers, and in a few years, three, five, seven years, it's gonna capture…”
Rob Walling: Drip will never become a billion-dollar business
“So yes, drip, I do want to get it bigger, but drip will never be a billion dollar business. It's not, it's just not designed to do that.”
David: Startups building CLIs for AI agents will win big
“So I, this is, I think, the future, how much it's weird, the futures of all this open Claw and agents and stuff is the CLI. People that are going to build startups with a CLI, Are going to win big.”
Wade Foster: AI agent skills will become cheap commodities like WordPress themes
“I could see skills kind of having, like, a business model like that, where it's like, you could buy, you know, buy one for five bucks, 10 bucks, there would be a bunch of free skills out there. You know, it's, it feels kind of like a very commodity thing at a …”
Gil: Software is shifting from seat pricing to purchasing units of labor
“We're shifting from a world where you're buying monthly packages or you're buying seats for certain types of software and you're effectively buying units of labor, right? That's this agentic shift.”
Walls: AI will build apps like YouTube in one prompt by 2027
“I think maybe in like a year it'll be able to do that. But right now you still got to kind of approach it like a programmer”
Thummala: Businesses will eventually run hundreds of AI agents internally
“Today, most businesses have zero or one agent or AI integrated into their business.
If that in the future, I'm sure that they're going to have hundreds of agents running within their business, and that unlocks an entirely new class of problems.”
Tossell: AI Agents Will Worsen Founder Context Switching and Productivity Anxiety
“Like, it feels like it's actually, you can work on even more stuff now, so actually people are going to get worse off feeling like they should be really productive, but actually feeling like, I've done absolutely nothing this week except for I tried to do thes…”
Singla: Search results will soon favor short-form videos over written articles
“Telling you these videos very soon are going to start popping up on search instead of that article you were reading from, you know, maybe booking.com.”
Lieberman: Service businesses will shift away from hourly billing starting in engineering
“We don't charge hourly. Like, we have a fundamental belief that service businesses are going to move away from hourly work, and we think it's starting with engineering.”
Dan Shipper: Big opportunity will come from unbundling ChatGPT into purpose-built apps
“And I think there's something very similar happening and going to happen with AI is people have to use ChatGPT and like realize that this new sort of workflow is possible. And then there will be a big opportunity to unbundle those workflows into purpose-built …”
Shim: Horizontal AI note takers will win over vertical SaaS tools
“There's one meeting note taker to rule them all in the sense of... A hundred percent. Cause it's too niche. You're not going to go in and say, oh, I've got a sales call. I'm going to invite this one. I've got a call with my doctor. I'm going to do this one. I'…”
Cheney predicts his AI agency will reach $1M monthly revenue by December
“We will absolutely be at ten million. We'll, we'll, we'll be at one million a month by December for sure.”
David: Users will shift to chat interfaces that orchestrate underlying tools
“People are going to move to these like chat apps, and they're just gonna write what they want, and they're gonna get it, and it's going to use all their tools together, basically, to do it.”
Cera: Pulsia could enable buying and selling automated businesses on-platform
“You could see a world tomorrow where like people can buy and sell certain businesses on Polsia because all the business is- The revenue, the knowledge, the infrastructure, right?”
Cera: Built-in company revenue will eventually exceed Pulsia subscription revenue
“Over time, the revenue from actual companies will grow higher than subscriptions because they'll be winners.”
Gil: AI coding tools will empower millions to build huge companies
“Through things like all the different coding models, you know, cloud code, or open AI, or cognition, or, like, it's gonna put the power of building things in the hands of millions of people who couldn't do it before. It's already doing that. And I think a subs…”
Gil: Cheaper software creation will drive massive customization around platforms
“As the cost of building new software drops, or the speed of building it drops dramatically, we should assume that there's going to be dramatically more customization, but that customization, again, is probably around a common set of platforms.”
Internal AI coding workflows will eventually commoditize across all firms, says Thummala
“Eventually everyone's going to have the same sort of, like, technical architecture behind it.”
Apfelbaum: EVAI will become a hundred-million-dollar business
“But in terms of, like, my baby, the thing that's going to be the hundred million dollar gorilla, that's heavy AI.”
Smith: ChatGPT Will Eventually Offer Prompt Search Volume Data Through Ads
“I don't anticipate they'll do that soon. I think that they'll eventually do that as they build out ads, but they don't give you that information.”
Smith: ClearScope will launch the first AI content optimization tool
“I believe by the time this podcast gets published, ClearScope will show the first optimization tool.”
Pujji: AI Model Updates Will Force Clients to Repeatedly Rehire Transformation Agencies
“Because every time AI changes, some new model's gonna launch, and then the same people who you did work for a year ago are gonna like, ah, shit, we need to do more work here, right?”
Shipper: Claude is near capable of dynamic agentic copy editing via Notion
“Claude is very, very good right now at, you know, longer horizon agentic tasks. And so I would, And it now also has file use. So I would bet that we're getting close to, if not currently at a place where if you pointed it at a notion page and said, read the no…”