Q Maybe we start earlier because one of the things we'd love to kind of, you know, get down as a part of lore is like, how did you get so AI pilled and like all the way to the edge?
A Well, I'll tell you my encounter with LLMs, which was so, so I remember in the pandemic, um, there was someone, someone gave me an API access to GPT-III and, uh, and I was playing with it and I was like, okay, this is, this is really cool. This is, there's, there's something here that could be, could be special. But it was the kind of thing that was like, yeah, it feels like a research project, the kind of thing that Google used to release, and you're like, you play with it for 10 minutes and you stop. Uh, Chachipiti came out, and I think everybody was sort of interested in it. Where I think it got interesting was, uh, when you started to see Reasoning models and of course tools, but, but I think everything else was sort of a blip until December. Um, and the way I describe it to, to my team is like, you know, electricity was invented in December. Uh, and I think electricity was Opus 4.5 and, and sure Opus models and, and, you know, open AI models got, got better and better since then. But, To me, that was the, the, the, the tip of the spear where you could say, yes, like coding harnesses actually work and, you know, cloud code existed for probably a year before, uh, but it wasn't that, that valuable yet. And I remember, you know, during the holiday break, I was playing with it and, and it was, was pretty shocking, probably similar reaction that, that everybody here had. And I t…
AI assessment note: “Well, I'll tell you my encounter with LLMs, which was so, so I remember”