LLMs
23 statements across 18 episodes · 17 bullish · 4 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2023 by Emerson Spartz · across every show →
Everything said about LLMs, oldest first
Feb 16, 2023 bullish
Spartz: AI has entered double exponential growth via self-generated training data
“Basically it was linear from, like, 1960 to, like, 2012, then it was exponential in 2012 till today, and now it's going double exponential. That's a big deal, because now it's exponential. It's, there's an exponent on top of the exponent. So before, we only ha…”
Jul 1, 2024 positive
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Louis-Lucas: Prompted LLMs will convincingly mimic human emotions and errors
“Even without better LLMs. But with proper context and prep proper instruction, I don't see how you would not have a better system that would reply exactly like Jesus said that the key thing is to have like a human touch, human emotions, and errors. Like you ha…”
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Crivello: Future service businesses will be one founder and AI armies
“But yeah, I mean, in the limit, it's going to be one dude. Well, there happened to be two, but it's going to be one dude and an army of AI recruiters. And that company can scale infinitely with compute, basically. It's just with LLMs.”
Nov 8, 2024 positive
Simons: Non-engineers gain massive alpha by mastering LLM prompting
“For people that are like indie hackers or like bootstrapping or just building side projects, especially people that are not like you know, seasoned engineers or something, right? There is just a ridiculous amount of alpha in becoming good at like, Getting a fe…”
Nov 18, 2024 negative
Kahl: Current LLMs act as the world's biggest 'gaslighting engines'
“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 …”
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Apr 16, 2025 bullish
Jun 4, 2025 neutral
Jiang: Human taste remains essential because 90% of AI-generated ideas are terrible
“I mean, the one thing you still have to have is you have to have taste. I mean, they'll give you a bunch of ideas, like nine out of 10 are shit. You have to decide, like, which one, like, you know, catches people's attention, is visually suitable, and can rela…”
Aug 4, 2025 positive
Aug 4, 2025 positive
James: AI-researched content helps local businesses outrank boring competitors
“Typically if you're in a boring market, The competitors are not going super deep and getting all this information integrated into their site. It's your opportunity to use AI to do additional research and, you know, build out more information that, you know, se…”
Dec 10, 2025 negative
Isenberg: Aggressive LLM Prompts Trigger Pre-Canned Responses to De-escalate
“A vague request might be something like, fix this grammar in this now, you know, but the problem with that is, you know, it leads to overly cautious, pre-canned, or basically just less helpful responses. As the model tries to deescalate.”
Dec 10, 2025 positive
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Isenberg: Serious LLM Users Must Build On Centralized Markdown Notes
“The fact, like, that if you are using, if you are serious about Using LLMs to take your ideas and put in and get the most out of them. If you're serious about building, you know, what people are calling a personal OS and you are not using a centralized note-ta…”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Isenberg: 99.99% of People Won't Build Personal LLM Systems, Leaving Massive Alpha
“Well, what's cool about this is 99.99% of people are not going to spend the time to actually set up something like this and make it a part of their daily lives. And the alpha, so to speak, is in terms of leading a more productive, happier, healthier, Better, m…”
Feb 23, 2026 positive
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Isenberg: SaaS UIs are becoming nice-to-haves compared to agentic LLM workflows
“But now when you're living in a terminal, for example, and you're using MCPs to talk to LLMs you kinda, you know, the nice to have is actually the UI. The nice to have is the SaaS. The nice to have is going to this website and look pretty. Ultimately what you …”
Mar 30, 2026 bullish
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Ross Mike: LLMs degrade in performance once context fills past 70-80%
“Cause the model will get dumb as the context window closes, right? So if you have like a context window and I can draw this out, if this is your context window and like the optimal is You're between, like, there's always, like, maybe, like, 10% is already fill…”
Jul 10, 2026 bullish
Isenberg: LLMs lack vertical context, creating MCP startup opportunities
“These LLMs are obviously amazing and, but they do lack like the vertical specific context and stuff like that. So you're seeing MCPs, you know, sort of, you have the mob in MCP for designs. You're seeing the idea browser for business building MCP. You're seein…”
Jul 27, 2026 negative
Schneider: Marketers Manipulating Reddit for LLMs Are Creating a Dead Internet
“Reddit is being eroded right now by people manipulating it for like LLMs to rank on them.
but this is a way like you buy people like me that are basically creating the dead internet.
Let's be real.
It's already happening.”