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“get them to use chat GPT um and you know yeah yeah and just until it's tangible people it's this existential threat but but once it's a tangible oh I can just it's it's feels like a search engine kind…”
“Claude 3.5 through Cursor is what I use to assist me in programming.”
“practical advice on how to get the best out of Claude.”
“cloud code is fant Fantastic. Since quad 4 release, it's become and and ask me again in a few months, I may use something different. But the tools are evolving really rapidly, but I think uh cloud cod…”
“or you know sometimes I do perplexity just depending on just the the formulation of my questions and I just start learning from there”
“I'm going to show you exactly how I'm using OpenClaw.”
“30% of Fortune 10,000 companies are using Lovable today as well.”
“you will be able to use codex as both your teammate and a competitor so everyone's going to get access to some number of queries to codecs while doing python programming challenges”
“important products that product builders should be aware of and should probably start playing with.”
“I use chat gbt I use Claude Ai and I use Gemini as well”
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“Lang chains is a developer framework that makes it easy to build llm applications”
“we use streamlit streamless awesome it was really easy to get started - who was in Cabin ce128 we can ask a question we can press submit it should hopefully run in the background we'll get back an ans…”
“you can go into AI Studio today, for example. You can try the models. You can even fine-tune a model”
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“Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models”
“Each episode will have a companion story, which we’ve generated with GPT-4 to spark discussion. You can find these stories down in the show notes.”
“I think Google's notebook thing is super cool. -Yeah. -What do they call it? -NotebookLM yeah. I was like, I woke up early this morning and I was like looking at examples on Twitter and I was just lik…”
“Polymarket, which has added a financial component to situation monitoring, opened an entire bar filled with TV screens dedicated to the practice.”
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“oh yeah so I guess if you've ever used um the Gemini API or AI Studio notebook LM or any of VO any of these things these are products that we've kind of worked on from Labs”
“I still think like a lot of people have an impression or an opinion on something without having done primary research themselves in a lot of ways in life and that's true in agriculture it's true in ho…”
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“And then we have desktop apps like Cursor, Whisper Flow, Granola.”
“If you want to learn more in depth, I have a whole section in AI builder club about how to build production ready large language model application where I will take you through step by step in depth o…”
“Refer to the [Next.js docs](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started) to learn more.”
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“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
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“I tried building advanced applications on top of Bitcoin that didn't go so well and then I decided I needed a more generalized system that would let me build generalized applications so I created a th…”
“I'm really inspired by systems like deepmind's alpha fold uh which i has you know sort of you know either solved or made hugely significant progress on the protein folding problem and that really is a…”
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“Now that I have those how profoundly different will my design be so if I have to create the next notion the next superhuman the next figma my bed is that Sterling is going to look completely different”
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“BetterHelp connects you with qualified therapists who can help you talk through the stress or anxiety that money worries can bring and think about ways to manage those worries. You complete a short qu…”
“Certainly almost all of them are trained with PyTorch. So that's another open source tool produced by by Meta.”
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“I have mapped out all like 5100 companies so far 5,100 I mean it's crazy and I put them all all into buckets so like you can see all the education companies or the real estate companies you know etc e…”
“I dealt with you know I wrote this essay Machines of Loving Grace a and one of the key questions it asked I mean it was focused on what are all the positive applications of AI”
“maybe I want to maximize learning about a specific topic right so I want the algorithm to feed my curiosity right which is in itself a very interesting problem so instead of maximizing my engagement i…”
“It's time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud Oracle Cloud infrastructure or oci oci is a single platform for your infrastructure database application development and AI needs oci has four …”
“GitHub co-pilot uh when when when they moved away from the weight lless to the paid version they just thought had like hundreds of thousands of people paying from the first day”
“what do the big AI Labs not understand about companies themselves do you think I think that's such an important question I mean there is just the products being released are just super weird I think t…”
“I wore the Vision Pro because I can walk around and have my hands free and be talking to people like I normally do but I can shoot the video from my point of view”
“We're going to be talking about codeex which is OpenAI's coding agent.”
“I have sort of this viral moment right now where I got to 40,000 stars this morning >> on uh GStack. So it's like, oh, this is an open source project that now is one of the biggest ones and I have mor…”
“this there's this engine underneath XJ called react and react created a way of sharing user interface components almost like Lego bricks”
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“It's also available in the Gemini app and all that other stuff.”
“the only way to truly have free speech to truly be censorship resistant is to work on open protocols and there are only two at scale that I'm aware of which is Bitcoin for money and Noster for um for …”
“if you're doing Quantum kkit is the obvious choice”
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“I recommend they all use anthropic”
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“Oh and I have one of those Substack things all the weirdos do these days I guess.”
“I started using computer and boy it's good uh it's a really strong start uh allowing me to do repetitive tasks very similar in some ways to co-work from claude”
“so people can go to perplexity Ai and run searches on the open web where you they get uh very good results”
“we also have the 1% diary, which is this incredible tool to change habits in your life.”
“I do use Cursor, Windsurf, and some other things.”
“And of course we're using Open AI.”
“Used [v0](https://v0.dev) to generate all initial UIs”
“I think the kind of early PG Spirit of just encouraging Founders to like think a little bit bigger is like it is a special thing in the world”
“I would definitely like build something with AI and I would definitely like take advantage of the ability to see a new thing and build something that day rather than like put it into a quarterly plann…”
“Lang chain Lang Smith Lang graph pushing on all of them lots of cool stuff related to a lot of the stuff that we're going to talk about today probably yeah”
“What was the last major technology company founded by academics? Google. At Perplexity, we get accused of trying to kill Google a lot. (Laughter) But trust me, we're not really trying to kill things.”
“Longtime listeners will know that I've been using and recommending Replet since back when Amjad still thought humans should learn to code.”
“Perplexity rolling out its AI browser comet to all users this week.”
“Instead of going to your notion, instead of going into your Gmail, instead of pulling up your calendar, you ask it, 'Hey, what's on my schedule this week?' It brings it to you.”
“36,000 that's the number of businesses which have upgraded to netsuite by Oracle NetSuite is the number one Cloud Financial system streamline accounting financial management inventory HR and more 25 n…”
“The Gemma model is a new open-source LLM by Google. As far as benchmarks go, it should be the best available on the market.”
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“The current movie, which is Project Hail Mary, which I hear amazing things about.”
“Indeed is all you need to find someone with the right skills.”
“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
“I would encourage folks to hurry up and act on it if they're interested.”
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“Framer is a no code website builder that gives your team the power to design, publish and manage your entire site without relying on engineers.”
“The Beginning of Infinity. Super cliche, but hard to be more optimistic, for me, than that book.”
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“One Starlink, you know, is a great cashflow generative business.”
“I would say nanochat is not an example of those because it's a fairly unique repository.”
“Today we are rolling out service tiers in the Gemini API! You can now (optionally) set "flex" or "priority".”
“if folks have looked at open router before like it was the most high token volume usage model like on on open router which again is like a reasonable proxy for model usage in some in some contexts”
“I really would encourage anyone that don't believe it is possible to Simply go to uh the GP GPT engineer uh and try it out you can get started in very you know few minutes”
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“Aiden is one of the co-authors of a of a paper called attention is all you need”
“um his newest book co-intelligence just came out this month it's about AI uh he'll also be doing a book signing for it right after this um at 11: downstairs so if you enjoy the talk definitely go meet…”
“They had set up app iPads with Nano Banana and you could enter a prompt to create an image and have it very photorealistically printed on a cookie.”
“GPT-5.4 is really good at spreadsheets; a few finance people have finally said things to me like "huh I guess this AI thing is real"”