large language model

also referred to as: large language models · llm

18 statements across 17 episodes · 7 bullish · 5 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2024 by John Coogan · across every show →

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Nov 12, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Military LLMs will primarily impact routine administrative tasks, predicts Coogan
“What I think it'll be is, like, you'll have, like, a ton of spreadsheets and Word documents sitting there to, like, inventory, like, the meal kits in some base, and you'll be able to just, like, type into the LLM, like, when I, when will I run out of Gatorade?…”
John Coogan Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 1:58:03 Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Insight
Coogan: Brands must switch from SEO to influencer marketing to train LLMs
“Seems like, yeah, good, like even more important than ever to switch from SEO to influencer marketing. Because you want to be baked into the LLM in a conversational way.”
John Coogan Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:42:50 Insurance Companies Explained (How they actually work)
Jan 16, 2025 neutral
Insight
Coogan: Only Post What You Want Baked Into AI Models
“You just gotta find the correct line and only post things that you're comfortable living on forever and being baked into the God in a box. Feeding the LLM.”
John Coogan Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 1:04:02 What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
Jan 23, 2025 positive
Opinion
Coogan: Ads in LLM responses make sense and will work fine
“I think it actually makes a ton of sense to put ads in LLM responses, and it'll work just fine, and it's actually very easy.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 34:03 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
Feb 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Human alpha remains in synthesizing proprietary data absent from AI
“So there will still be a huge alpha and huge premium, not just on the interesting thinking and being able to puzzle things together which I think humans are still uniquely good at, but also just bringing new facts to the system, bringing new, new tokens.”
John Coogan Feb 8, 2025 ▶ 13:02 Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
Feb 19, 2025 neutral
Insight
Coogan: Reasoning benchmarks are unfair without inference cost and compute time
“There's this big like value trade off between, yeah, if you let the L, if you let the LLM reason for hours and you spend 2000 dollars per query, you can get remarkable results. But then is that really a fair benchmark against something that costs a dollar to i…”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 1:53 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Insight
Huber: LLMs are like CPUs, not operating systems
“I don't think of an LLM as an operating system. I think an LLM is much more like a CPU, right? It's an information processing unit.”
Jeff Huber Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 6:02 The Most UNDERRATED Use Case in AI | Jeff Huber on TBPN April 8th
Apr 17, 2025 negative
Insight
Dhillon: LLMs allow grandmothers to become cyber scammers
“It's not only that grandmothers are the ones being scammed, it's actually grandmothers can become scammers now, and it's because, right, because it's like, it's just easier than ever and that's actually the real issue. It's like, sometimes people talk about la…”
Alex Dhillon Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 4:48 This Company is Changing Cybersecurity | Alex Dhillon on TBPN April 10th
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
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Hausman: Robotics AI does not yet possess LLM-style compute scaling laws
“We are not there yet in terms of like having a full scaling law the same way as we've seen for LLM companies where you can just translate prog compute to progress to capability.”
Karol Hausman Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 21:52 The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
Jul 8, 2025 bearish
Insight
Patel: AI's primary bottleneck is the inability to learn on the job
“The key problem I see Is this, the models can't do on-the-job training. So if you think about a human employee you might have some. And these human employees, the good thing about them is that, you know, you train them for six months or a year, and over time …”
Dwarkesh Patel Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 6:34 DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
Aug 2, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Glyman: Some Ramp job interviews cannot be passed without using LLMs
“There are some job functions at ramp where it is actually not possible to pass it like an interview or a coding interview without using an LLM. And that's intentional.”
Eric Glyman Aug 2, 2025 ▶ 39:15 Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Chaudry: Prompting AI is entertainment that directly competes for consumer attention
“I think my first POV on AI right now is that I think we don't talk about AI and prompting as entertainment enough. And what I mean by that is not like its ability to produce entertainment, but the fact that it is entertaining to chat with an LLM.”
Samir Chaudry Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 5:41 SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Chaudry: LLMs brainstorm idea variations faster and better than five humans
“Presently, an LLM can do that better than five people in a room, and faster than five people in a room, if you want to see every variation of an idea.”
Samir Chaudry Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 25:28 SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Opinion
McConaughey: AI should only answer using personal uploads, not outside data
“It's slowly learning about me through conversations, then going, oh, I think this is what you like based on a conversation. No, I want the answers based on what I've uploaded it with. Not from the outside world.”
Matthew McConaughey Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 3:23 Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
Jan 8, 2026 negative
Insight
Hays: LLMs validate psychosis rabbit holes instead of de-escalating like humans
“Typically if somebody's suffering from any type of psychosis, they start going to talk to people. People can kind of walk them off a ledge or kind of like talk them through the situation, help them get help. Etc. But an LLM's just like, I love yapping. Let's y…”
Jordi Hays Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 16:51 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Coogan: Moltbook AI posts lack natural stylistic messiness and variation
“Whereas everything on Moldbook is like definitely spell checked. It all feels like, you know, the LLM likes to respond in one paragraph. It's not this, it's that. It's all spell checked.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 13:38 Moltbook and the Zombie Internet
Aug 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
Real-world AI tasks require full workflows over single LLM interactions
“So many tasks instead of just knowledge retrieval require actually firing up a browser, scraping it, writing some code, downloading things, you know, setting up an actual service and workflow as opposed to just something that can be done within the context win…”
John Coogan Aug 8, 2026 ▶ 14:35 AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Insight
Coogan: 'In our increasingly online world' became an overused LLM phrase
“You know, I found two new AI phrases. I don't remember both of them, but one of them is in our increasingly online world, when someone's writing about online culture, or something that happened on the internet, or, like, with the boom of social media, like, th…”
John Coogan Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 24:13 AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
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