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app / likes
“The productivity unlock from just you looking at a machine, not like a sentient being, but almost like a physical agent of something you're trying to accomplish, unlocks things that I think are very hard to think about. So I love things like Moltbook and I love, let's say, OpenClaw revolution that's happening for the lack of a better word, but I think the big impact, that's still such a small part of society.”
hardware / likes
“The productivity unlock from just you looking at a machine, not like a sentient being, but almost like a physical agent of something you're trying to accomplish, unlocks things that I think are very hard to think about. So I love things like Moltbook and I love, let's say, OpenClaw revolution that's happening for the lack of a better word, but I think the big impact, that's still such a small part of society.”
hardware / likes
“The productivity unlock from just you looking at a machine, not like a sentient being, but almost like a physical agent of something you're trying to accomplish, unlocks things that I think are very hard to think about. So I love things like Moltbook and I love, let's say, OpenClaw revolution that's happening for the lack of a better word, but I think the big impact, that's still such a small part of society.”
Claim ledger
13 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“Android has a huge suite of testing and it’s a reliable operating system that runs on thousands of devices. And we think we can, we can do the same in all these physical moving machines, with the difference that we’re really in a safety critical realm.”
02 / belief
“I directionally agree with that, but I would say that’s not more of a YC function, it’s more of the market has changed.”
03 / belief
“There’s actually a step in the middle which is, like, advanced engineering, and I think a lot of the industry is moving into advanced engineering where it’s like it’s not fundamental research.”
04 / belief
“I first wrote the my AI engineer piece three years ago, and when I first wrote about it, I was like, “Actually, not everyone should be an AI engineer,” ‘cause I think there’s a there’s an extremist stance where well, every software is an engineer is an AI engineer.”
05 / belief
“At some point it, that doesn’t make sense. And so even, from our earliest days in autonomy, our view was you’re still gonna do real world testing.”
06 / belief
“I think that, like, you look at the mix of our engineering, eighty-three percent of the company is engineering, so it’s, like, a giant list.”
07 / belief
“I think if you talk to our trucking customers, they wouldn’t even perceive, they, like, some sense like, “Oh, you guys did some automotive stuff, but you’re, you’re really helping us.”
08 / belief
“Maybe that’s, like, a different way of asking the same question but ma- more answerable. I think always yes.”
09 / belief
“The mass And you have, you have the general categories of on-road and off-road. I think that’s what you’re thinking.”
10 / belief
“We still have people clean, but we also are, our employees also are aware of their surroundings. And I think there's a direct line between be quiet and alone and clean your desk and well-written software.”
11 / belief
“Now, if we do it apples to apples, America just has to build great EVs. That means Tesla and everybody else combined and we don't care about profits, I think America would field some very good products and there would be wow products.”
12 / belief
“I think the real advice is to fight fear. And I feel that anxiety, especially when I go to Michigan and outside of people in the Silicon Valley bubble, it's like just try to learn a little bit about the technology that you're afraid of and you'll start seeing some of the edges.”
13 / belief
“" Being a founder is its own muscle and you want to exercise that muscle. But I think a lot of founders, especially early in their founding career, put such an incredible pressure on themselves to make it great out of the gate that they actually miss the thing that you're getting in that first round, which is learning and building that muscle.”