Scott Wu
15 statements across 4 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2025 by Scott Wu · said 28 times in 13 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN
- AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN
- The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
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2025 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- OpenAI Just Cracked the World’s Toughest Math Challenge — Here's How
- Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
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2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Scott Wu, oldest first
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Scott Wu: AI reasoning and problem solving are already good enough
“This is a bit of a hot take, but I would say. A lot of the problem solving is actually good enough already. You know, a lot of the reasoning of the problem solving, I mean, AI has been shown to be capable of solving some pretty hard stuff. I think actually wha…”
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Scott Wu: Extracting full AI value on complex codebases still requires engineers
“And then I think there are a lot of these kind of like larger and more complex tasks, you know, working on a big code base or figuring out things with your existing product or, you know, building, as you're saying, like a lot of this really kind of these bigge…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Wu: AI will create roughly 10 to 20 new power-law businesses
“I think that a lot of the existing great businesses are going to do very well in the age of AI. I think there will be you know, in the neighborhood, I would say if kind of like you know, the 10 to 20 power law businesses of the new ones that come up from AI, y…”
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Scott Wu: Long-term AI coding moats depend on codebase personalization
“In the longterm, I think these things naturally do kind of converge to a point. And there are a few particular pieces I would say that, that really kind of caused that. And one of the big ones that I'll just point out is, you know, there really is a lot of I g…”
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Mar 19, 2025 bearish
Wu: AI will drastically reduce B2B software switching costs
“A lot of these a lot of these switching costs, you know, that exists, especially in these B to B businesses are just going to go way down, you know, and I'm sure we can all think of these companies that, you know, they only really thrive today because it is so…”
Mar 19, 2025
Wu: Software engineers spend 90% of time on maintenance tasks
“The thing is you only spend about 10% of your time doing that, you know, as a software engineer in practice, you probably spend about 90% of your time, you know, dealing with your Kubernetes and fixing your unit tests and upgrading your thing to the new versio…”
Apr 8, 2025 neutral
Scott Wu: Enterprise engineering still requires humans for architecture reasoning
“And I think on that side, you know, I think for the time being, that's going to be primarily focused on software engineers. Just because, you know, it's while we're still working with these layers of abstraction, you still really need to have all of these Kind…”
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025 bullish
Scott Wu: Cognition launched an agent-native IDE for Devin
“What we rolled out today is essentially an agent native IDE. And what that means is, you know, I think there are a lot of great products out there that are about really accelerating you in a synchronous workflow. What we've always built Devon for is to be trul…”
Apr 8, 2025 bullish
Apr 28, 2025
Partovi: Neo flew out parents of Neo Scholars for a weekend event
“This year, We actually created a, an event called parents weekend, where we flew out the parents of the neo scholars all for like a weekend long of like talks by Scott Wu from cognition and other, you know, other people who, whether they dropped out or started…”
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Scott Wu Denies Windsurf Was a Shell, Retained Product and Team
“Obviously there were all these stories breaking out on Twitter and everything going on and people were saying, well, you know, the thing that's left is just a shell. And we looked at it and we said, well, actually, I don't know if that's right. You know, it's …”