Jordi Hays
Everything Jordi 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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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 4 episodes
"I did take a picture and ask ChatGPT what is this? I was playing a video game and I took a photo of the screen when I had to upgrade my character in the role playing game and I was like, how should I allocate my points?"
▶ 36:04"On my phone I would have the ChatGPT app and then the ChatGPT app on my phone could talk to Codex on the desktop, but I never actually needed to open the ChatGPT desktop app."
"I don't even need the weather app. I can just ask ChatGPT, give me the weather for the next week. Even things like surf reports — I'll just pull a surf report in chat."
"Over the weekend I was messing around in ChatGPT with the image model on some furniture ideas that I had. I managed to make some stuff that I think is cool. I would happily pay for this chair that I made."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I've opened my deck outline in Figma that I've shared at this point with probably over a hundred founders, because I spend so much time on this. I have example slides for each slide and structuring and all this stuff."
▶ 2:17:13"I could go into Figma and like make a version of it very very quickly — and now with AI I can basically one-shot a version of it that's like pretty easy."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"The Rivian team sent me to demo this week, which has been a lot of fun. It's actually an amazing car. I like it. The self-driving feature, deeply underrated."
▶ 42:19"The Rivian team sent you this demo unit to try. It's actually an amazing car. I like it. The self-driving feature, deeply underrated."
Personal use in 1 episode
"We're a happy TrueMed customer. TrueMed has a very meaningful take rate, but it's a great trade because you're able to sell incremental product."
▶ 29:44Personal use in 1 episode
"An agent cannot save me time versus just doing it myself with how good Shop Pay is. As somebody who's very AI-pilled but almost equally Shopify-pilled, I've just been buying things with Shopify for so long and it feels like every single year it gets significantly faster to complete a purchase."
▶ 30:47Warned against
"I can open Gemini in Gmail and I can also open Gemini in Chrome and then I just have two sidebar chats that — if the window's too small — it takes up 100% of the window. And I'm like, this is insane. And then you can't even use the models to interact with the email."
"Back in the day in college I was getting a Kindle and on the checkout page it was like, do you want to save $10 and get the ad-supported Kindle? And as a college student, I was like, saving $10 sounds pretty nice. And then I had to live with a Kindle that would sit on my bedside table just blaring ads in my face constantly."
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"Growing up playing Call of Duty, I'm very used to just calling in... your drone supply drop."
"Aston Martin launching a partnership with Call of Duty... as somebody who loves Call of Duty and loves Aston Martin, I still got quite an aversion to that partnership."
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"You're going to tell me that buying Monster at a 42 PE isn't smart?"
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"You can just see like 99% chance that this person is going to win. And I think Polymarket called every single one correctly."
"It could be the Manifold strategy or it could be the Polymarket Kalshi strategy. And the fact that they didn't try and acquire Manifold, they tried to acquire Kalshi, sort of signals like hey, they're probably going the financially incentivized route."
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"The Winchester Model 1873 is called the gun that won the West."
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"I think the headline yesterday, I couldn't tell if it was real, is that Goldman is sort of banning the use of Claude Code and Codex internally and other coding agents. To me, that seems kind of like an insane move."
"Claude Code and Codex have been sort of looking more and more like each other in many ways."
"The growth of Claude Code specifically is like proof that software has changed to some degree and you can get adoption of something at a speed that is entirely unprecedented."
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"Elon says the cost of serving Grokbot was unsustainably high relative to revenue... I was so surprised by this. I think everyone was surprised by this."
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"I think the current read is that they were using Opus 5.5 under the hood."
"The funny thing is the nature of having access to Claude and ChatGPT and other agents is people can process the S1 a lot faster."
"We saw this with 4o. We saw this with Opus 4.5. Some of the models that have had the highest levels of product market fit have more of these human qualities."
"On Instinct's own A/B test, it matches Opus 5 performance at a fraction of the cost."
"Opus 55 launched today. Benchmarks look really good, very cheap. And the key thing is this is the first model we've released since we said we were pacing the frontier. This is an expression of the pacing."
"Codex and Claude can connect into all these other tools and models and just give you what you want as a user without incurring any of the cost of focusing to make great models."
"He posted this tweet that was fully written by Claude."
"Matt Schumer basically uploaded to GitHub a game that he made with Opus 5 along with the prompt. And so you can sort of distill on that."
"In some benchmarking tests, according to cybersecurity company SEMRAP, GLM 5.2 bested Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model which was released in May."
"Two months ago Meta epitomized token maxing, on track to spend billions a year on Claude etc."
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"A 44-year-old tech entrepreneur named Adam Robinson who had a company called Retention.com. I never knew Adam, but I know that a lot of people in ecom were customers."
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"Maybe it should be in Zillow or in Redfin or any of these tools. You should be able to remix it yourself in the app."
"You just dropped the Zillow links into Codex and it made you an entire website that you could walk through with before and after."
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"I thought it was interesting that this week we had Commanding Heights and we had Cliff's newest episode on Invest Like the Best, which was somewhat complementary."
"Noah from Instinct going on Invest Like the Best to announce the new round. There was one question on security."
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"Do you play Minecraft growing up? Yeah, of course. That was peak."
"Astra was playing Minecraft and a creeper blew up Astra's chest. It got depressed and farms potatoes for several hours."
"GPT-6 Astra was playing Minecraft and a creeper blew up Astra's chest. It got depressed and farms potatoes for several hours."
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"Like, why would you just not dollar cost average into the Russell 2000?"
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"Sundar says, 'Excited to share Genie 4 today, our most realistic and interactive world model.' ... Looks incredible."
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"It's very hard to judge Instinct's growth relative to Muse simply because Instinct doesn't have an app."
"This Instinct test is, hey, we understand this person. Let's basically suggest some products that they maybe weren't thinking about but they would buy."
"Bunch of people got slop ads from Instinct. They're upset. I'm helmet cuz I think it's good."
"1 billion a year in transaction volume, still invite only. Growing 10% a day. Spent zero dollars on marketing. 40% of users shared a personal credit card with Instinct within 3 weeks. Compute demand is doubling roughly every week."
"Are you getting pitches for 'we solve the problem created by Instinct and Muse yet?' ...the secondary businesses are just Instinct for business, Muse for business."
"I haven't used the product yet, just because giving that level of access to this new startup — I looked at their terms and conditions and it kind of seemed like you're giving away a lot. All your data is going to be saved pretty much in a clear text database. It'll be secure but they will have access."
"It seems like Instinct started doing basically texting product recommendations... the agent was actually recommending products that a Targa would never need, like he was pushing a trickle charger and an indoor cover."
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"Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, their next frontier model, which follows Argon's release just two weeks ago... it ranks number one on the recently updated V5 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index."
"Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, their next frontier model, which follows Argon's release just two weeks ago."
"I was talking to someone relatively high up at a Fortune 500, and they said that they were basically running boilerplate Gemini that the whole org had access to, and that was their AI tool. They were telling everyone, just use this."
"Google does have Gemini Spark, which is like a 24/7 always-on agent, but like no one — does it have a VM, does it have a real virtual machine?"
"Gemini is a big F1 sponsor."
"If you look at the Google SynthID, so Gemini has done this for like a few years. If you look at their blog that explains how it works, it will highlight specific words in the piece of text — it's like, okay, this is probably AI written."
"Gemini has done this for like a few years."
"A billion people are using effectively another search engine, an answer engine. They're using ChatGPT, they're using some Gemini, they're using some Claude, but obviously by and large that usage is going somewhere else besides Google."
"That's driven by their workhorse Flash model, which makes sense. They've been focused on very efficient token generation because they vend them into so many Google systems."
"They're effectively saying Gemini does not have talent. They're saying you need all three."
"Google does have Gemini Spark which is like a 24/7 always-on agent, but no one — does it have a real virtual machine? It says even if your phone and laptops are turned off, it'll still work. But no one's really talking about this."
"Obviously, these are not the actions of people excited about Gemini 4 Pro."
"They're effectively saying Gemini does not have talent."
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"OpenRouter is the most successful model router. You can almost serve 100% of their DeepSeek traffic yesterday on a single GB300 rack."
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"My theory was Notion, because they want to be a collaborative workspace where you have a bunch of agents coming in. They put themselves in the center. They're positioning themselves as an AI company."
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"I've even seen people offering, I think Rippling was offering Eight Sleeps."
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"Give people the option of like if it's $5,000, and then the ad-supported, privacy-reduced version is $1,000. Like with Kindle, they give you the option."
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"I think Rippling was offering Eight Sleeps."
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