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“I'll talk about one nonfiction and one fiction book. The fiction book was I just finished reading it. I really recommend it. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. I think it's like an online author, but I saw it being shared on X. It's like a science fiction-y kind of book and I basically devoured it in like two days. It's super, super well written, super fascinating. It's about a government agency that's fighting things that make you forget it. And so it's just a very smart creative book and fresh, honestly, in terms of source material that I really like. So I'd recommend that one. The book is also unintentionally hilarious. So it's meant to be this sci-fi, almost like horror style book, but it made me laugh a couple times. So that's the fiction book. Non-fiction, so I'm going to cheat and I'm going to recommend two of them. So in the last year, I've been reading a lot more about China and the US-China relations. And I think there are two books that came out in the last year that have been really, really eye-opening for me in that regard. First one is the Dan Wang book, Breakneck. That one was really, really good. I really liked his analogy of the lawyerly, US is the lawyerly society, China is the engineering society, and there are pros and cons to each. I read it and I was like, hmm, yeah, it does seem like we're run by lawyers in the US. So then that's one. And the other one is the Patrick McGee book on Apple in China. It was super, super interesting. I'm a huge Apple fanboy. If you could see my desk right now, it's all Apple stuff. But just one, it was just super fascinating learning about Apple's relationship to China. And then two, it just had a lot of inside information about Apple as a company that I found fascinating. So it was also quite a page-turner and also a very, very timely book as well.”
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“OpenAI's mission was to make AI available to all of humanity. And I think some people diss that, they're like, "Oh, it costs money.”
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“The only thing I'd leave folks with is, yeah, I think the next two to three years are going to be some of the most fun in tech and in the startup world that we'll have in a very long time.”
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“I think if we end up moving to this world where you end up with these kind of micro companies building software that works for one or two people who own the company and are working there, I think the startup ecosystem will change.”
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“I didn't really fully internalize this until I went to Dallas and observed when your house sits next to one of these giant voltage lines, it was buzzing and most people have families, you don't want your kids near there. So I think that was one that really, really kind of surprised me.”
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“I don't know if you used it before, but it's basically like the Apple of home networking.”
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“To enable a one person billion dollar startup, there might be a hundred other small startups building bespoke software. So I think we might actually enter into a golden age of B2B SaaS.”
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“OpenClaw is a great product. And then I saw that this morning, I mean, this is very recent, but this morning, I think the moltbook kind of like we've shared as well and seeing all of the AI agents talk to each other is pretty surreal.”
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“Software engineers I think will understand this, but not every company has software engineers.”
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“Just using the tools, you don't need to be a software engineer to lean into this. I think a lot of jobs are going to change here.”
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“I don't know if from an absolute percentage or absolute basis, I don't know if it's bigger or smaller than software engineering.”
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“A very good example right now is there are, I would say, a group of engineers internally who are really Codex-pilled and are thinking through what the best practices are for interacting with this model.”
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“I mean, part of this too is I think there's also general sentiment from folks around the country, like basically outside of tech that AI is being forced onto them.”
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“I don't know what job has changed more in the past couple years, like job that we didn't expect to change this much where just like the job of an engineer is so different in the entire lifespan of an engineer.”
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“There's a tangible energy internally around just how far these tools have gotten, how good Codex as a tool has gotten for us. And it's a little hard for us to exactly measure how much of the code is written because the vast majority of it, I'd say close to 100% is usually generated by AI first.”
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“2 in particular has gotten extremely strongly adept at is reviewing code and especially when you kind of steer it in the right direction. And so for code reviews, yeah, we create a lot of PRs, but Codex reviews all of them and it makes code reviews go from a, I don't know, 10, 15 minute task to sometimes even just like a two to three minute task because you have a bunch of suggestions already baked in.”
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“It's clearly a moving target. And I think a lot of the companies that I've seen, startups that I've seen really, really do well is they build a product for an ideal type of capability that is like maybe 80% of the way there today.”
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“Maybe the fourth order effect is distribution becomes increasingly important because there are so many freaking things trying to get your attention.”
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“There's some teams where there are EMs managing quite a few people and they're doing it pretty adeptly because of some of these tools where they can get higher leverage and understand what their team's doing, understand organizational context a little bit better and operate in that way.”
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“I think that's what makes it exciting, but it also means when you talk to customers, you kind of need to balance the exact feedback that they want with where you think the models are going and where you think things will trend over the next one to two years.”
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“There's also, I think, some engineers who I think trust Codex a little bit less, but basically every day I talk to someone who is blown away by something that I can do and their bar of trust or how much they trust the model to do on its own goes up over and over, over time.”
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“I just think the AI field, especially what I've seen over the last three years working on the API and seeing all that evolve, is the field and the models themselves are just changing so, so quickly, they tend to disrupt themselves, especially around the tooling and the scaffolding space. So there's this quote that I read actually earlier this week, it's from an X article by this guy named Nicolas, who's the founder of a startup called Fintool, where I think he was sharing a lot of the best practices that he has learned through building AI agents for financial services, I think at his startup Fintool.”
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“And so I think we might actually enter into a golden age of like B2B SaaS and just like software and startups in general. And so I think that's a really interesting trend to kind of see because as it gets easier and easier to build software, as it's easier and easier to run a company, you might actually just end up seeing way more of these startups.”
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