Amjad Masad
Everything Amjad personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"for example we utilize a lot of Gemini flash which is like a great model at like code search at like design"
▶ 2:10:50Personal use in 1 episode
"Getting a really kick-ass car the moment you get any kind of money is the most important thing you could do. I got an AMG GT Black Series."
▶ 1:14:48Personal use in 1 episode
"One site I was really into growing up called hackthissite. It was hackthissite.org. It's like a website that has vulnerabilities built in. It's like capture the flag."
▶ 35:07Warned against
"Why do LLMs like ChatGPT actually suck at chess? They hallucinate moves and all of that."
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"You can use Muse in your personal life and connect it to your credit card and bank accounts, and no one's connecting Muse to their enterprise data, or even Grokbot and things like that."
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"I remember this Sequoia blog post about SBF that's like gold. They deleted it. You can find it on archive.org."
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"I remembered this sci-fi story that I read once. It's called The City and the Stars. It's about this future city that's governed by AGI."
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"It's probably dangerous out there. Yeah, a little bit like Silo, a little bit like Fallout."
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"He learned to hack on Roblox. And apparently there's a big trend where people learn programming and hacking on Roblox. I was talking to Dave, the founder and CEO of Roblox. It'd be really cool to have some kind of sandbox for these people to play in and then discover talents and then funnel them into cybersecurity jobs."
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"We integrate with Mobbin. It's typically a paid service. We're providing it for free."
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"Models at the time used to get really anxious, especially Claude."
"Mid 2024 Claude came out and Claude Sonnet and for the first time we could generate like a lot of code as opposed to like GPT-3.5 which has that laziness component."
"But then since set came out and later Opus the gap has closed by a lot"
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"I would also cluster Hacker News within that as well — it's good for the Silicon Valley, tech, in-group messaging, for maybe one hop outside of Silicon Valley, which is kind of the early adopter."
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"You know we got GPT-4 at the time and you know GPT-2 had come out in 2019 GPT-3 in 2020. So every two years we were getting a model and now it feels like every few weeks we're getting a model."
"In 2023 when we're training models, we achieved better coding performance than the state-of-the-art models at the time, GPT 3.5"
"For the first time we could generate like a lot of code as opposed to like GPT-3.5 which has that laziness component."
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"If you're in Cursor it's literally one click away to switch to the next model."
"Cursor decided to build their own model. There are people at Replit today that still prefer to look review every piece of code and something like Cursor is good for that because it's still sitting in the IDE."
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"Medv the billion dollar one person business covered by the New York Times. He runs a big part of the replet a big part of his stack on Replit and it's been a crucial part of their growth."
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"What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started Replit?"
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"Later on I would also worked on React and React Native."
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"I think the insight that a lot of YC dev tool companies has had like you know Stripe, you know, PagerDuty. Developers were empowered to be able to make decisions to bring software into the company."
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"I think the insight that a lot of YC dev tool companies has had like you know Stripe, you know, PagerDuty. Developers were empowered to be able to make decisions to bring software into the company."
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"Later on I would also worked on React and React Native."
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"You're building a CPQ system like a quote configurator where it's like pulling from HubSpot or Salesforce."
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"Whoop is a client of ours and they told us the amount of ideas they can try has grown by an order of magnitude. They used to get like a hundred ideas but are able to only try five of them but now they can try the 50."
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"You're building a CPQ system like a quote configurator where it's like pulling from HubSpot or Salesforce."
"We're not seeing people rip out Salesforce or workday or like really fundamental system of record type SaaS tools and instead they're building on their APIs"
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"They went to the support team and was like, 'Okay, you know, you're using Zendesk and all these other tools. What are the main problems?'"
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