AI
9 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2025 by Colin McIntosh · across every show →
Everything said about AI, oldest first
Jan 22, 2025 negative
Nov 13, 2025 positive
Jan 18, 2026
Baron: AI cannot one-shot whole apps, only discrete modular components
“AI isn't there yet where you can just say like, Hey, make me a mobile app. Make no mistakes. Don't hallucinate like that. That won't work at all. What AI is really good at doing is if you break down your app into blocks, and then of course you can one shot a f…”
Feb 8, 2026
May 10, 2026 negative
Brian Shin: Never use AI for consumer app design
“Consumer app is basically a craft. And I use a lot of AI for dev or finance for everything, but for design, we never use AI. And that's because we really believe that design requires taste. And we think that the more opinionated, the better design that could p…”
Jun 14, 2026 neutral
Pat Walls predicts AI will flood the app market within five years
“What's going to happen is a lot of, everyone's going to be able to build anything. And there'll just be this flood, this sea of apps. I'm sure it's already happening right now, but it's going to be way crazier in one, two, five years.”
Jul 5, 2026 positive
Glacer: Viral apps must solve painful problems simply to enable rapid content marketing
“My framework at this point is just solve a painful problem in a simple way, and it should be inherently viral. If it's not inherently viral, the idea itself, Then add some sort of novel aspect to it to make it inherently viral. With AI, there's so much that's …”
Jul 5, 2026 bullish
Jake Glacer: Marketing is the most valuable skill in the AI era
“Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views.”
Jul 12, 2026 negative
Pearl: Female creators face online cancellation and intense backlash for using AI
“When I talk to women, there's actually a huge demonization of AI amongst women. I don't even know if men know this, and I think some men are demonized for using AI, but, like, when women use AI in their products, or just in general, they're, like, completely, …”