Dylan Field

11 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2026 by Scott Morton · said 38 times in 9 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Feb 26, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Morton: Figma CEO Dylan Field Is an Investor in Revel
“Dylan Field is actually a pretty big investor in, in Revel, and it's been super interesting.”
Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 20:10 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 negative
Insight
Field: Playing Mafia is a lose-lose dynamic that damages personal trust
“At some point I stopped playing the game, actually because I figured out that it was a lose-lose. Either you actually do well, and you've, like, lost, because people afterwards oftentimes are like, how could you? I trusted you. It's like, I feel terrible. Or y…”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 14:53 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: Software companies will thrive despite prevailing market doom narratives
“Right now the narrative seems to be like software is, you know, kaput... But I think that a lot of software will do just fine, or actually even amazing.”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 38:34 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Opinion
Field: Holly Herndon is an underappreciated visionary artist far ahead of her time
“She's a total visionary artist, too. I think people don't appreciate, like, how far ahead she sees things. You know, she was Into very specific, like, quirky ways of using NFTs, or they weren't called it then early on. She open sourced her voice with AI early …”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 8:06 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
Field: Design AI evaluations are inherently non-verifiable and require human judgment
“And the evals we're running on stuff we're doing, stuff others are doing, like a lot of it is inherently non-verifiable. It's like, gotta be human judged at the end of the day. And you can set up more automatic methods for that, but you still have that human i…”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 9:59 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
Field: AI judgment and design ability do not scale with IQ points
“All my experience with AI so far have shown that on formal domains, things that are verifiable you can get to amazing outcomes with enough IQ points, and yet judgment is like somehow not purely correlated with just adding IQ points to the model.”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 27:21 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Opinion
Field: VR is currently the only space creating fundamental new interaction paradigms
“I think the only place we're seeing it right now is kind of in VR where it's really seen the gaming context, but there are new interaction paradigms being created there, and that can exist in software too.”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 46:00 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: AI model interfaces will evolve far beyond basic text prompting
“I just think that the interfaces for how you interact with models will evolve so much. And to the degree that models are part of software, we will see a ton of exploration there.”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 22:15 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: Major AI companies will not become monolithic value-sucking black holes
“There's going to kind of be like a black hole and suck it all up. Which I'm sure that that's not going to be what ends up happening. I think that they're all going to get a lot smarter than that. And I think most don't even want to do that in the first place”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 24:31 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Opinion
Field: Visual composition and color are rare and highly trainable distinct skills
“Composition and color. It's like a real skill, and a bunch of people really try and train for this, and some people have got it to the degree that others don't, and it's amazing when you find them.”
Dylan Field Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 13:03 Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 15, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Black: Dylan Field and CIV co-led Senra's Series A
“Ended up co-leading it with a CIV, which is another really great investor of ours, who's been incredibly helpful throughout this whole process, too.”
Jordan Black Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 33:24 Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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