Amjad Masad
12 things Amjad uses or recommends, from 8 episodes.
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What Amjad uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"The main realization from YC is how much you can get done in 3 months. When we exited YC, we already had like web development, we had like the initial aspect of hosting, we had code intellisense, we had like so many sort of IDE features like got a lot more feature complete just in three months."
Uses and recommends it · 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."
Uses and recommends it · 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."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"for example we utilize a lot of Gemini flash which is like a great model at like code search at like design"
Recommends it · 1 episode
"The buzzword for it is project-based learning. There shouldn't be a buzzword for it because that should be the standard. The idea that you're learning something and you don't know the utility of it, I think is a very modern invention."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Kimi K3 is an amazing model. It's at maybe a quarter the price, sometimes even better. It's also a fantastic design model. It's the first model I see that is actually trying to reason about design — if you read the traces, it thinks about page structure and layout and aesthetics. You can select the model you like. You want to design purely with Kimi, go ahead and do that."
What Amjad warns against
Things Amjad says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"Why do LLMs like ChatGPT actually suck at chess? They hallucinate moves and all of that."
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All 12 of Amjad's picks
- Y Combinator Uses and recommends it "The main realization from YC is how much you can get done in 3 months. When we exited YC, we already had like web development, we had like the initial aspect of hosting, we had code intellisense, we had like so many sort of IDE features like got a lot more feature complete just in three months." +17 others
- hackthissite.org Uses and recommends it "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." Only Amjad
- AMG GT Black Series Uses and recommends it "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." Only Amjad
- Gemini Uses and recommends it "for example we utilize a lot of Gemini flash which is like a great model at like code search at like design" +71 others
- Steam Deck Uses it "I bought a Steam Deck because I just wanted something to take my mind off all the depressing stuff." +1 other
- Claude Uses it "Anthropic has been the sort of workhorse for over a year right now. It's just like the core agent loop because it can run for a long time coherently." +245 others
- Anthropic Uses it "Anthropic has been the sort of workhorse for over a year right now. It's the core agent loop because it can run for a long time coherently." +10 others
- Project-based learning Recommends it "The buzzword for it is project-based learning. There shouldn't be a buzzword for it because that should be the standard. The idea that you're learning something and you don't know the utility of it, I think is a very modern invention." Only Amjad
- Kimi K3 Recommends it "Kimi K3 is an amazing model. It's at maybe a quarter the price, sometimes even better. It's also a fantastic design model. It's the first model I see that is actually trying to reason about design — if you read the traces, it thinks about page structure and layout and aesthetics. You can select the model you like. You want to design purely with Kimi, go ahead and do that." +2 others
- Hard Drive Recommends it "This is another really good old school, very unknown biography, Hard Drive. It's like in the '90s about Bill Gates." Only Amjad
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things Recommends it "I think Ben Horowitz and like The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a very good book and inspiration for especially like a more sales-driven business." +3 others
- The Sovereign Individual Recommends it "There's like another book that's Burnham asks. It's called The Sovereign Individual. I don't know if you've read that. It's a fantastic book. It predicted Bitcoin." Only Amjad