why aren't all 9 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: AI reduces a month of engineering time to five minutes
“What would take a month of engineering time Can take literally five minutes.”
Assertion Partly supported
Simons: Bolt Hackathon broke world records with 130,000 participants and 1M apps
“The world record for the largest hackathon prior to this hackathon was 66,000 people. On day one, we crossed that number. At the end, we had over a 130,000 people, and over a million new web apps were created in, in that 30 day period.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Simons: AI will augment workers rather than replace them
“Most people think AI is going to replace them, but in, in reality, it's just gonna augment them and supercharge them.”
Assertion Supported
Simons: Users have launched full-stack production apps with Stripe and Supabase via Bolt
“We have people that have launched real products just using Bolt at this point where they're like taking Stripe for, you know, subscriptions and like using Supabase to authenticate and like, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can a hundred percent buil…”
Assertion Supported
Simons: Weight Coach wins $100,000 in total Bolt Hackathon prizes
“Second place goes to Weight Coach. The second place champion, 75,000 dollars. They also won the 11 Labs AI Voice Challenge. So, total winnings today, a 100,000 dollars.”
Assertion Supported
Simons: Bolt Builds Applications In-Browser and Deploys Directly to Netlify
“That's the other kind of cool thing about this is that it's actually doing this build in your browser, uploading it directly to Netlify, and we can go ahead and view it here.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: YC startups are using Bolt to generate landing pages
“We've had YC startups already. They've come to bolt to build their landing pages and stuff”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: At least a dozen Bolt users have acquired paying customers
“There's at least a dozen people that have launched stuff that have said, yep, I've had my first customer or, you know, first dozen customers or whatever at this point from bolt”
Assertion Supported
Simons: Bolt is trained to pull images from Unsplash automatically
“So we've trained this thing to actually you know, just out of the box, it'll, it'll go and pull stuff from Unsplash. I think a couple other providers as well.”