Guillermo Rauch: belief

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…And that's like tens of thousands of dollars. Maybe the most cracked engineer at Vercel could knock it out in ... without using any AI, could knock it out in a couple days. But then what about the design? What about me? Because I'm the bottleneck, not the engineer. And this is what's amazing about this collaboration because I'm providing the product guidance. I'm saying, "Draw a dashed line between the ... " And by the way, v0 just blew my mind so hard. I said, "Draw a dashed line between the two destination airports." And v0 said, "Well, I have to account for the spherical, or what is it, it's a pseudosphere, for the curvature of the earth." It's like, "Okay, v0, super genius, whatever." And so that's what I mentioned about how you can go back and forth. It's like a product copilot, it's like an all-knowing being. One of our users yesterday submitted feedback to the tool and it was positive feedback. They were very happy, what they were saying, "v0 is a super genius five-year old PhD with ADHD." So you still have to, I'm not going to oversell this like, "It knows everything about everything. It gives everything perfect," of course. But it has these sparks of brilliance. Really, truly, I think, I've been a big believer that AGI undersells what we are collectively building because we already have, all of this sparks of super intelligence. I don't believe that v0 is an AGI if it knows everything about how to draw a dashed line according to the curvature of the earth and this high-performance map of airplanes. That's just superhuman. And yeah, it's a joy to use. (instrumental music)…

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