Dave Blundin
15 things Dave uses or recommends, from 14 episodes.
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What Dave uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"A very complicated question came up and the lawyer was answering it and I typed it into Gemini concurrent with that and I swear to God it was word for word the same. It's just really really good at law."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Codex is really good now. The combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good for enterprises. I use both side by side — they're right here on my laptop. I use huge numbers of tokens in both every day. Just as of the last month or so, the combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good."
Uses it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I have Claude code on the left side over here. Run it through a Claude 4.7 Opus Max agent, then get a second opinion from Gemini 3. I usually have it default to calling Claude 4.7 opus."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"We're all big Accelerando fans thanks to Alex actually introducing us to the book, but one of the themes in Accelerando is agents that spawn clones of themselves or people spawn clones of themselves all the time to achieve a goal."
Recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Alex does a phenomenal job of reporting on all of the AI events. Like if you listen to Innermost Loop and every event that happens, he covers it."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I got it up and running on my own dedicated GPUs on Modal. It took less than an hour to get a fully functioning Kimi thinking and working 24/7. It's a little pricey, but it's like $55 an hour on Modal to run at full throttle. You can spin up 100 instances in two minutes now if you want, just through voice prompting. You don't have to have any technical skill at all."
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Things Dave says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"It's pretty clear that Sonnet 5 now is a way to kind of fill this gap until Fable 5 is back out. A kind of mediocre capability at a high price point, but people will still need to buy it."
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All 15 of Dave's picks
- Gemini Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "A very complicated question came up and the lawyer was answering it and I typed it into Gemini concurrent with that and I swear to God it was word for word the same. It's just really really good at law." +71 others
- Codex Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Codex is really good now. The combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good for enterprises. I use both side by side — they're right here on my laptop. I use huge numbers of tokens in both every day. Just as of the last month or so, the combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good." +96 others
- Claude Uses it 2 episodes "I have Claude code on the left side over here. Run it through a Claude 4.7 Opus Max agent, then get a second opinion from Gemini 3. I usually have it default to calling Claude 4.7 opus." +245 others
- Accelerando Uses and recommends it "We're all big Accelerando fans thanks to Alex actually introducing us to the book, but one of the themes in Accelerando is agents that spawn clones of themselves or people spawn clones of themselves all the time to achieve a goal." +1 other
- Innermost Loop Recommends it 2 episodes "Alex does a phenomenal job of reporting on all of the AI events. Like if you listen to Innermost Loop and every event that happens, he covers it." +1 other
- Modal Uses and recommends it "I got it up and running on my own dedicated GPUs on Modal. It took less than an hour to get a fully functioning Kimi thinking and working 24/7. It's a little pricey, but it's like $55 an hour on Modal to run at full throttle. You can spin up 100 instances in two minutes now if you want, just through voice prompting. You don't have to have any technical skill at all." Only Dave
- Claude Fable Uses and recommends it "A month ago, to fine-tune these things required some huge engineering effort that required AI experts. Now with Fable 5, it's just a prompt." +12 others
- Lambda Uses it "One of my agents last night said, 'Hey, I can do a much better job of what you're asking if I move from Modal over to Lambda Labs. Can you get me a Lambda Labs account and I'll start paying them instead?' And it gave a little budget and everything. I said, 'Sure. You seem to know what you're talking about.'" Only Dave
- ChatGPT Uses it "We used it all the time. It was incredibly cool for its time — OpenAI was one of the earliest if not the first to offer fine-tuning as a service." +155 others
- Mac Studio Uses it "I'm running a couple of Mac Studios, you know, with Kimmy K2.5 on top of Opus 4.8 and an OpenClaw there. I haven't migrated yet, but why can't that be a standard future?" +5 others
- AWS EC2 Uses it "When I launch it, I launch it within Amazon EC2 which is secure and also it works if my laptop closes or my machines crash. It's still out on the cloud. So EC2 is the orchestrator." Only Dave
- Cursor Uses it "I've got cursor which I've used since it came out on the right. I've got about 50 agents right now in cursor." +57 others
- Airbnb Recommends it "So any entrepreneur out there, just get an Airbnb. Don't become a California resident. Get an Airbnb out. Spend as much time as you can in SF. It's absolutely not tax advice." +3 others
- GLM Recommends it "Within open weights, you might want to start with the new GLM model which has fewer parameters but it's still a very long context window which gives you more flexibility. It's less locked into its training than the closed source models. And so if you go to the open source world and find the fine-tuning open source code and layer it on top of GLM, you might be able to manipulate it a lot more." +8 others
- Laya Biosciences Recommends it "Just a plug for Laya. I am not involved or an investor in any way and Peter is. But Jeff von Moltzson is freaking brilliant and that company is amazing. Anyone who's a biotech person, consider trying to get a job there and join before it becomes huge." Only Dave