AI tools

“Especially with all the new, like, no code tools, AI tools, I think you're going to get a lot of smart, driven individual people just sitting at their laptop being like, I built the Copilot for pet owners of Border Collies.”

“At the very least, you're going to learn about the audience, and you're going to learn these AI tools. Which is a win. It's worth the experiment anyway. I mean, what worst case is this. You spend a couple hundred dollars on AI tools, and you waste some time. A…”

“I don't think you can, if it comes to that AI stuff, I don't think you can come in a year later and try to merge your way into it. It's probably too late with those kinds of tools.”

“The service they provide, their prices should be going down or you should be like, you should be spending one day next week, like designing all of your prompts. And if you really want somebody else to write your content for you, like the following week, you sh…”

“Distribution is more important than product now, it's just from a, it's just easy, you know, it's hard, it's easier to build product. You can use like AI tools and other software to go and create those products. But it's harder to get distribution”

“And you've put in the groundwork to keep testing, iterating, playing, breaking, learning that when they do become really, really good, you're not starting from scratch. You've already have this knowledge. Now you're starting to build and ship fast.”

“I think a lot of software engineers have been kind of late to the game on trying to adopt AI tools. And also the way that they're kind of approaching is very different than someone who is you know, kind of entrepreneurial in nature.”

“All these LLMs, all these AI tools that we have in the world right now, they're effectively gaslighting engines. Right? That's the world's biggest gaslighting process that you can ever imagine is like asking a question of an LLM and then seeing as it tries to …”

“I realized, Greg, that a lot of people are led down by the AI tools hallucinating or giving them the wrong thing, and that's because most people are terrible product managers.”

“I actually learned how to, like, fully integrate multiple APIs into an app before I even knew what API stands for, because you can, you don't need to know with a with the AI tools.”

“Someone that has a big, or has like a strong opinion on a product they want to make, or a direction the world is moving, They're almost at an advantage with these AI tools relative to like a small or even medium sized team, because if you are someone that like…”

“Both Shopify and Duolingo came out saying basically all of the employees have to learn all the AI tools, plus they're not going to hire people who don't know how to use the tools anymore. So it's now an entry requirement.”

“It's not about downsizing. It's about like dramatically maxing out The people who are there already with these tools.”

“A bad prompt gets me really crappy results, and I think that's what kept turning me off using these tools. And I also think that's what, I'm sure there's a lot of people listening to this podcast who've repeatedly tried using these tools, and they're like, tha…”

“And I think most of the leverage from these tools comes from doing things When they're janky and bad, understanding that it's not going to be janky and bad, right?”

“The difference today is you know, it just doesn't cost that much to create the media, you know, with all these AI tools. So if you can actually go and, you know, attract a high value customer you know, and then ultimately pass them off From a lead gen perspect…”

“The people who figure out how to use these tools are going to come out on the other side of this Like godlike in the sense that they're gonna able to do things that they never dreamt was possible.”

“Most companies are about to have the exact same problem. They're going to have 10 AI tools, 50 workflows, a bunch of half working automations, and nobody understands how to turn that into an operating system, which is what they really want.”