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Ben Tossell

7 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2022 by Ben Tossell · said 16 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 10 mentions in 1 episode

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Nov 30, 2022 negative
Opinion
Tossell: Not everyone should learn to code
“I don't think anyone should learn or every, I don't think everyone should learn. Sorry, that's going to piss people off.”
Ben Tossell Nov 30, 2022 ▶ 1:17 How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben Tossell
Nov 30, 2022
Disclosure
Tossell launched 50 failed projects before founding and selling Makerpad
“I think I launched, like, 50 things before MakerPad happened, and MakerPad happened because people didn't pay for all my other things. They would see the things I'd built and say, yeah, cool, I'm not buying that, but how did you do it?”
Ben Tossell Nov 30, 2022 ▶ 5:08 How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben Tossell
Nov 30, 2022 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2027
Tossell: A two-person company will generate hundreds of millions by 2027
“We'll have a company pulling in like hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and it'll be like one or two people actually running that, that company.”
Ben Tossell Nov 30, 2022 ▶ 40:44 How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben Tossell
Nov 30, 2022 negative
Opinion
Tossell: Big tech will easily replicate lightweight AI wrapper products
“Lots of these bigger companies or lots of companies in general will just be able to do most of the capabilities that lots of these, like, I don't want to like downplay them, but these like more throwaway products. The AI is enabling.”
Ben Tossell Nov 30, 2022 ▶ 23:39 How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben Tossell
May 21, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Tossell used Factory AI to convert personal site code to GitHub
“I actually used a different coding agent factory to then say, put this all into code and put it on this GitHub repo. And that's where this then started off.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 5:14 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tossell: Codex cannot process uploaded files, images, or UI mockups
“Because the thing you can't do in codecs, so there's some limitations here, obviously, like you can't upload any files. You can't upload any images. You can't say make the UI look like this.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 20:55 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tossell updated his live website via AI with five button clicks
“We've opened the task, we've merged it, we've closed it works on my site. I did no coding, and I did Maybe like four or five button pushes to do this.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 16:56 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
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