application layer
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2025 by Aravind Srinivas · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2025 bearish
Nov 7, 2025 positive
John Coogan argues government should subsidize energy infrastructure over AI applications
“Keep the government out of the application layer. Focus on the energy layer. Just work on driving down energy prices and let all the tech companies duke it out and they will be benefit beneficiaries of cheaper energy”
Sep 12, 2026 negative
Coogan: AI doom concerns are largely contained to frontier labs
“The doom is very much contained to the frontier lab work. Everyone in the application layer who's applying the models, diffusing them, they're like, I just, I can't get this thing to work right. I gotta get forward deployed engineers to teach people how to use…”