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“Obviously Annie Dillard. Everyone at every has to read The Writing Life. When you join, you get a copy and you have to read it. You only have to read the last chapter though. I think the last chapter is incredible, and it is at the intersection of writing and technology and the future and its relationship to the future and to time. It's everything about every wrapped up into a very tight chapter. It's so good. And I think Annie Dillard just generally is fantastic. What else do I recommend? I'll just tell you a couple things that I've read that I've really liked recently, and whenever I like something, I always just tell everyone about it. So I have recommended these a lot. I've been reading... One of the things I learned, which I didn't know is Churchill is a really good writer and he has a whole history of World War II that he wrote and it's like a combination history and memoir. And I think that's so cool because he was there, he did it. And there's something about what we do at everywhere. I feel some sort of kinship with that of like we're building stuff, we're writing stuff and it's very rare to find people that also do that. And so Churchill History of World War II is fantastic. I just finished the first volume. I'm on the second volume. The Nazis just invaded France. It's very captivating stuff. So that's one. I've been on a little bit of a quantum physics kick recently. AI is actually very good for quantum physics if you get into it. And there's this book called The Rigor of Angels that I just finished, which is, it's a history of ideas that relates Heisenberg, who has his uncertainty principle. Borges, who's an Argentinian fiction writer, wrote a bunch of great short stories. They're actually starting to get a lot of play now because they're very AI related. And Cont and very cool, super mind-blowing. Lots of interesting overlaps with AI stuff and, yeah, highly recommend.”
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“Let's fix that." And so there's certain kinds of engineers that I think love that and love having their hands on the latest thing and also love making this being that's in a workspace and it looks a bit different than more traditional, building more traditional software.”
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“I think the definition programmer is expanding enough that they'll have a big market, but I don't know that they're going to jump into like, "Okay, use this to make a slide deck," or whatever.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think we covered it. We did a lot. This is awesome, and I'm very excited to see how well or poorly I do in a year, and I hope that you hold me to it.”
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“I definitely want to be the one to think about what it should say, what it should say, but the actual sentences don't matter that much to me usually.”
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“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.”
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“We speed ran the CLI era. It was nice while it lasted, but I think CLIs are over.”
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“Sorry, the blue bubbles on OpenClaw, if you can use it with your iPhone, but I think there's this little thing in people's heads where they really like to keep their personal and work agents separate.”
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“I think most of the stuff that I'm going to talk about will be pretty apparent within a year, but it may take longer than that.”
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“I think the SaaSpocalypse is dumb. I would buy SaaS stocks right now. What agents do is increase the number of users of SaaS, not get rid of it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there's too much of I'm doing this because I have FOMO, I might lose my job or I might miss out on this big thing or whatever.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We don't currently have an AI that we talk to regularly in Slack, and we also don't work currently mostly in Codex or Claude Code.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“How do I use this to make something new and interesting? And I really think that structurally because of the way the models work, because of the financial incentives of model companies to make them compliant and aligned, structurally they're always going to be trailing behind those people who are taking the models and using them to make new expertise or make new things that haven't been done that way before for their very, very particular situation.”
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“I think you can, and there's another really interesting bifurcation of this that we should talk about, which is that having two agents is better than one. But I think for now there's this really cool thing where with Proof, for example, anyone who uses it, I don't pay for tokens because they bring their AI to Proof.”
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“The only thing you need to do is ride the models and that means use them for whatever it is that you do.”
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“" And so I think Codex right now, this is a horse race. They're going to have different positions, but I think Codex right now, it's my daily driver.”
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“One last thing that I think is really interesting is I think that we will be reading way more AI generated writing in documents and emails and we will like it.”
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“I'm very curious and I'm super all-in on AI." And what that does, I think, is it creates this little pocket of the future where we're all living in it together and we get to be a little bit further ahead because at any other company, there's a mix of people.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Well, one of the things that's really interesting is a lot of companies handicap their employees from even doing this because I don't know if you can use the latest models at Salesforce.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One of the things I learned, which I didn't know is Churchill is a really good writer and he has a whole history of World War II that he wrote and it's like a combination history and memoir. And I think that's so cool because he was there, he did it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast