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other / uses
“I continue to be astounded by how much engineering has transformed in two years. It's like a completely different dropdown. We used to sit there in NID and write code, and now you're just talking to agents and reviewing code and shipping 100 PRs a day.”
service / likes
“I love Waymo. It's just like, once you see it, you're just like, This is insane.”
other / likes
“They don't have to raise money. They can just kind of go heads down and build, so I love so much about the story of Surge.”
app / uses
“Yeah, let's do it. I use Discover Weekly all the time.”
other / built
“The Superhost example is actually really interesting because I built the Superhost program.”
app / uses
“As an example, I use Claude and ChatGPT for coming up with title suggestions for these podcast episodes. And I give it examples of just examples of titles that have done well, and then it's 10 different examples, just bullet points.”
app / uses
“Yeah. For me when I use Claude for coming up with interview questions and just suggestions of... It's actually really good.”
app / likes
“Okay. By the way, I want to make it clear, I love Claude. I use Claude and ChatGPT equally, roughly.”
app / likes
“Speaking of apps, I was doing research on you in preparation for this and I didn't realize you built Quitter back in the day. I love Quitter.”
app / built
“Fun fact, I built an app once called Savorable that helped you savor the moment, it was called Savorable and it sent you a text every few hours, I don't know, maybe once a day with a little reminder of way to savor the moment.”
hardware / likes
“I love Sonos. I love the name. I have many Sonos products. How often does this happen where the client is just, "No, this is not the name.”
other / likes
“I love Ender's Game. I've read them all.”
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01 / commitment
“I love it. I'm going to go do that. Elizabeth, thank you so much for being here and being here again.”
02 / commitment
“What you're saying here is you believe we will continue to have specialties, product person, engineer, data science, designer.”
03 / commitment
“Dan makes a lot of bold predictions and many quite contrarian takes that I was not expecting him to say. And we are going to revisit this conversation exactly a year from today to see how much he got right.”
04 / commitment
“People have always joked, we get paid so much just to sit in front of a computer and put the right sorts of words and letters into this thing and we get paid a lot of money to do it. And now it's like, oh shit, maybe I won't be paid this much in the future because AI is going to be taking over.”
05 / commitment
“I want to come back to this idea of malleable software from a perspective of SaaS and the SaaS apocalypse. There's all this talk about, we will not need SaaS tools any longer.”
06 / commitment
“OpenCloud's such a good example. It's just like, I will build a skill for myself and now I know how to do this thing.”
07 / commitment
“Claude clearly is trying to, instead of acquiring OpenClaw, they're just like, "We will build it.”
08 / commitment
“Along these lines, I want to touch on, it feels like maybe the core approach you take, kind of the core to your philosophy, which is to kind of break out of this idea of some benchmark for a specific role and instead make it very clear to the company, "Here's the pain I will solve for you that is really important to you, and here's why it's worth paying me this much more because it's such a big problem for you.”
09 / commitment
“The core to your philosophy is make it very clear to the company, "Here's the pain I will solve for you, and here's why it's worth paying me this much more.”
10 / commitment
“I could stay in my little hole. But just to follow through on these things you pointed out that I did earlier, because I don't think I've ever talked about these things, I had all these different side projects before, like through college, I guess.”
11 / commitment
“I definitely want to spend more time on that. I will follow up with this suggestion.”
12 / commitment
“Don't just like, "We have software, go try using it." It's like we will have someone on our team helping you figure this out and maybe there's not even software yet to do all these things, but we'll have them do it for you.”
13 / commitment
“I hear everyone talking about it. I am going to try to avoid it, I think. Next question.”
14 / commitment
“I feel like this newsletter, I started this newsletter six, seven years ago at this point, and originally it was like, I'm just going to build this chill newsletter, do this on the side.”
15 / commitment
“How bad must this investor feel at this point. We won't name names. Just to share some stats, I know this is going to be by the time this launches, this will be out, but you guys are at over 100 million ARR now, worth over $2 billion.”
16 / commitment
“I will say the ending, I was just like, it felt like it kind of slowed down a bit.”
17 / commitment
“You'd get a year free of Warp if you become an annual subscriber for Lenney's Newsletter, check it out, LanneysNewsletter.”
18 / commitment
“" Just like this part is wrong. I will fix it. Yeah, I'm very much a pick and choose.”
19 / commitment
“I feel like everyone goes through that. Eventually in their life they decide, I will watch The Wire.”
20 / commitment
“I'm going to live in, I don't know, Fiji and just code it, make 100, 300, 500K a year from this thing.”
21 / commitment
“I'm very excited because I think I'm going to learn a ton in this conversation. What I want to do with this chat is essentially give people very tangible and also just very up-to-date prompt engineering techniques that they can start putting into practice immediately.”
22 / commitment
“I will say, though, in terms of pricing, it feels like ChatGP, it works. It's just like a monthly fee, talk to it up to a certain limit.”