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"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
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Clear filters"The capabilities of foundation models or companies like Lovable are just improving at such a rapid rate"
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"When you talk about speed, I think about ramp uh for sure. Uh when Jeff was on the podcast, their CPO, he just like our title was velocity, velocity, velocity."
"you think Facebook or Uber or DoorDash early on, they understand this viscerally where scaling this much just brings a lot of challenges"
"you think Facebook or Uber or DoorDash early on, they understand this viscerally where scaling this much just brings a lot of challenges"
"If you look at anyone who's talking from Anthropic, we always talk about the exponential."
"Both Anthropic and OpenAI spent the whole of 2025 focusing all of their training efforts on coding"
"With Claude code, that five engineers is like two to three X."
"You hear prompt injection and think, 'Oh, I can solve SQL injection. I'll use the same thing.' That doesn't work."
"One of the cleverest growth moves you all made was this idea of importing memory from ChatGPT"
"ChatGPT launched and like they got like insane traction"
"But with AI, it's like you go to ChatGPT, you ask it a question, you get an answer. I get this AI is a mega trend."
"GPT-5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along, but in a way that crossed a threshold"
"GPT-5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along, but in a way that crossed a threshold"
"Both Anthropic and OpenAI spent the whole of 2025 focusing all of their training efforts on coding"
"He co-created Django, the web framework that powers Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify, and thousands of other platforms."
"He co-created Django, the web framework that powers Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify, and thousands of other platforms."
"Claire Vo, the incredible host of our sister podcast, How I AI"
"LinkedIn profile and your resume is a snapshot of what you've been in the past, but it doesn't help you negotiate in the forward. The things you say on LinkedIn serve as a perception."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"I had to work with Stripe and Substack to just like shut them down."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"I had to work with Stripe and Substack to just like shut them down."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."
"I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero."