Aric Floyd

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"There's this blogger that I love, Speedmowitz, who's on Substack, and he has this line he always goes back to: AI is the best tool we've ever made for learning things and also the best tool we've ever made for not learning things."

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"There are just not that many people who work at SpaceX compared to Standard Oil 100 years ago. It's just a different world where capital can be deployed at huge scale without a bunch of people being involved."

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"There was probably an era when the AIs were just about as good as humans and people could say, for the sake of keeping my brain active, I'm going to avoid looking at Stockfish, even though 10% of the time I'll miss a better move."

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"Anthropic came in first at 2.6 out of 66. OpenAI and Google DeepMind got a C. Meta got a D+."

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"Sam was on a podcast a couple weeks ago saying we didn't have our best 12 months and that's because we were distracted. We weren't sure about the demand. We wanted to do consumer apps. They were doing Sora and now they're like nope — it's all in. We just got to make these things better at coding."

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"Meta got a D+. xAI, DeepSeek, and Miscral all failed outright."

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"xAI, DeepSeek, and Miscral all failed outright, one on each continent."