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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”
“30% of Fortune 10,000 companies are using Lovable today as well.”
“I'm going to show you exactly how I'm using OpenClaw.”
“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”
“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”
“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…”
“Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models”
“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…”
“Uhhh... @grok @AskPerplexity this can’t be true, is it?!”
“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.”
“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”
“Refer to the [Next.js docs](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started) to learn more.”
“you can go into AI Studio today, for example. You can try the models. You can even fine-tune a model”
“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…”
“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
“I made it using grock the gro image generator and I posted it tell us about it to my profile seek for efficiency”
“we've gone on to found this company versell where you're the CEO and um you really have built a remarkable reputation for just super high quality work throughout the software industry”
“I'm going to show you this account that I'm using with cowork. There's no, there's no tasks there because this is sort of like not my burner, but it's my, uh, it's my external account. Uh,”
“If you go through the trouble of maintaining Twitter accounts you might as well speak your mind”
“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”
“Certainly almost all of them are trained with PyTorch. So that's another open source tool produced by by Meta.”
“We're going to be talking about codeex which is OpenAI's coding agent.”
“this there's this engine underneath XJ called react and react created a way of sharing user interface components almost like Lego bricks”
“Granola: https://www.granola.ai”
“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 …”
“- Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/)”
“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”
“Oh and I have one of those Substack things all the weirdos do these days I guess.”
“so people can go to perplexity Ai and run searches on the open web where you they get uh very good results”
“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…”
“And of course we're using Open AI.”
“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.”
“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
“if you're doing Quantum kkit is the obvious choice”
“Used [v0](https://v0.dev) to generate all initial UIs”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“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"”
“Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more”
“experience abroad or be able to like gain as much of experience and knowledge from places that you can internet to like online courses and stuff and talking with people I think like connecting through…”
“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”
“Introducing: Cohere Transcribe – a new state-of-the-art in open source speech recognition.”
“but the thing is that team ended up go going to work on co-pilot and codex you know our code generation models and we just realized that digital space is moving so much faster right”
“NemoClaw. You said NemoClaw. This may be even bigger. I start my morning with NemoClaw.”
“I do use Cursor, Windsurf, and some other things.”
“I'm interested in like ai and ethics and i got an award for like my perusal into this space by venturebeat and i'm just wondering what you've learned because i'm sure in the way that you've deployed t…”
“over 41,000 businesses have future prooof their business with Netsuite by Oracle the number one Cloud Erp bringing accounting financial management inventory HR into one fluid platform with one unified…”
“third if that's not enough you can make a GPT um ... make a GPT for yourself ... it's super easy takes seconds”
“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.”
“Additionally, don't forget to cite Keras if you use these models.”
“Relativity is the AI platform for legal work, delivering defensible AI that handles the tedious tasks so judgment stays where it belongs, with you. Learn more at Relativity.com forward slash. WSJ.”
“One of the skills is being able to go into our sales database which is in pipe drive.”
“I learned about Shor's algorithm.”
“npm i -g @tobilu/qmd”
“Linus Torvalds recently actually built a repository. And recently, he said he vibe coded it with Anti-Gravity. So he actually built some-- his most recent Git repository he did. And I guess the thing …”
“Replicate (@replicate) Reference to Video https://replicate.com/wan-video/wan-2.7-r2v”
“Yeah. So in total now Jamaa has like all of the YMA based models have over 500 million downloads. Uh but yeah so when we launch new models we want to make sure that people can use the models with thei…”
“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”
“Didn't expect this great analysis @thisisgrantlee, gamma is great btw.”
“And and you know we have we now have a new package called deep agents which which is • what we would call an agent harness by the way all these things stack on top of each other so like langraph power…”
“Landing AI has a product called Vision agent that led the way in this image processing Revolution Trend”
“and GitHub.”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“I learned about Grover's algorithm for searching giant databases [...]”
“Can you, again at a high level, how AlexNet worked?”
“similarly like stable diffusion and mid Journey were all like pretty competitive with Dolly 2 and actually probably making more money than DOL do”
“now that the the Deep research things are out I mean you guys have yours in kind of um which has been very good and now because of open AI I'd like to play a little bit more with deep research”
“there's a vzer for medicine called open evidence that is built with NEX shs and verell”
“deep seek just mugged all of us...this company with like a pretty lean team you know $10 million or less in like training budget and was able to like build”
“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.”
“Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4”
“we've seen Devon we've seen Sierra these other these other companies start to emerge um in in the agent space”
“I actually think I'm not alone. Just judging from the Twitter feedback, I think people are really realizing how great of a combination Codex CLI and GPT-5 are.”
“I personally have never been able to. So, we basically only saw a few animated gifts about that, but that will definitely be one of the first things that I try when I get my hands on Gemini 3.”
“And this is a special shout out to school and Sam. I'm taking all the learnings that he put in the school news and I'm trying to make them public because I think they're awesome.”
“I mean things like open evidence too for medical information where doctors are now really using that as a trusted resource like you Harvey for legal you're really starting to see AI emerge as one of t…”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“I use brave search for searching the web and firecrawl as well for searching the web.”
“it depends on the product but I mainly use canva”
“And Sora was one of them.”
“Moltbook is the new Reverse Turing Test.”
“when Slack was coming up a few competitors to slack were actually giving you IRC as a service with some UI”
“I'll give my my really quick shout out to the people at zapier like I think zapier is going to be the an incredible catalyst for people who are just getting used to this technology to like truly autom…”
“Jeff spearheaded TensorFlow, one of the programming tools responsible for the democratization of machine learning.”
“for super base this is one of the easier ones to hook up and a lot of people use super nowadays”
“using auto research and a chunk of data, something was published internally that we said, 'Oh my god.' And that would normally be a PhD thesis that would take seven years... done in 30 minutes”
“There's a benchmark called SWEBench software engineering bench and you start seeing the score going up dramatically. I don't know I think we were at like 10% last year and now we're at like 70% and 80…”
“Amgen has been, like, a top customer of GPT-5, for instance.”
“and then also use Helios and laula light clients for L1 and for L2 um you could do a mockup of moving um L2 configs onto L1 and turnning turning the main ASMR contracts and then support the version of…”
“npm for JavaScript”
“I've done some work on deep agents there's open code amp there's many.”
“How he uses Cowork to detect team misalignment in Slack”
“that's true thank you so much Twitter to I don't think that's the reason you're here the reason you're here I think is Voyager is really interested so Voyager which Jim built is a agent that builds it…”
“Therefore, I think making a bet on a crypto project that is distributed and that solves real world problems like startups, which is my area of expertise and yours as well, Elizabeth. There's something…”
“Parsing: LiteParse, the fast and accurate document parser we recently open sourced”
“So right now the most popular place to use codeex is in your IDE. So like in VS Code, bunch of people pop it up.”
“this week on no priors we explore replet and its new AI tool Ghostwriter”
“there's a great project GPT researcher um which which has some really interesting kind of like architectures around agents”
“We got Sam Partee, co-founder and CTO, Arcade.dev. Very famous company with the tools. We'll get into that.”
“make sure to go check out AI box.ai if you want to get access to over 80 of the top models in one place for $8.99 a month. Links in the description.”
“I have a concrete example of this yes so there's a YC company called Auto GPT”
“if you're like I don't even want to I don't even want to like be in charge of deploying it i think there are some there's this thing called replet or bolt where you can just go and describe an app you…”
“So, if you if you look at our uh Gemini Gemini live version of of Gemini where you can hold up your phone to the world around you, uh I'd recommend any of you try it. It's kind of magical what it alre…”
“I think that some companies are less responsible than others. So for example, I think Meta isn't particularly responsible.”
“I think is probably the one of the more kind of like popular coding benchmarks right now. You can actually see they they have like the the agent harness and then the model and so you can see the varia…”
“if you're nerdy you can start playing around and running them on your local desktop and people are real excited about the quality they're getting out of this thing”
“use the tools try out Noster play around with it Freedom Tech is Hope let's make this thing happen”
“I've built my own software for talking to llms I have a command line tool that I've been building”
“playright is basically Puppeteer 2 in that a bunch of the engineers who work on Puppeteer switched from Google to Microsoft and rebuilt Puppeteer so playwright is sort of the accumulation of of like a…”
“Here are three reasons why we think Interactive Brokers is better than any other brokerage platform. Number one, they've got it all. Stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, crypto, you name it, 170 markets, 36 …”
“about a month and a half ago i went on zillow and i said what can you buy for a million dollars in jacksonville florida”
“Close your eyes. Listen to monday.com. Feel the sensation of an AI work platform. So flexible and intuitive, it feels like it was built just for you. Now open your eyes. Go to monday.com. Start for fr…”
“you have seen maybe a models that can generate images like dali and people are looking into models generating videos they're like various algorithmic questions even how to do it and it's unclear if th…”
“Support for this show comes from MongoDB. If you're a developer stuck fixing bottlenecks instead of building the next big thing, then you need MongoDB. Mongo is the flexible unified platform”
“basically what Superhuman did I want to do again”
“I'm using Google Gemini for a bunch of stuff.”
“among them three shows noticeable performance including DenseNet201, MobileNetV2, InceptionV3 on the teaLeafBD dataset.”
“you've often talked about the benefits that will come to the medical field and when you go through the sdgs it seems like good health and medicine is an area where you feel that AI will have a lot of …”
“if you're looking for something like more complicated data analysis really kind of understanding something that you'd have to think about then something like 3.5 Sonet or 3 Opus may be more appropriat…”
“Simon is an independent researcher and creator of the data set op Source data exploration tool”
“there's many companies there's cursor there's codium GitHub co-pilot actually which is GitHub is owned by Microsoft they were actually willing to go through the step of of using am of using Amazon's c…”
“DeepMind actually has now deployed something very similar to what I proposed. Uh it's called synth ID.”
“Definitely encourage you to learn about it. it will make your life easier probably if you find a good MCP server implementations to help some of the data integrations.”
“By connecting Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo, teams can easily align work to real business goals, plan and track progress together, remove knowledge silos, and access the real magic.”
“in a machine checkable format like, coaul or or or or lean or some uh uh formal verification language like that”
“Mistral Nemo is now compatible with `mistral-finetune`!”
“gpt-5 pro for devs:”
“rail gun exists and you can use it and there's successful cases where we can point to where it's actually prevented people who have hacked large scale DeFi contracts from putting their funds into it”
“I did a thing with Manis this year. Um obviously they just got bought by by Meta”
“it's important to know that you can upload files into it so you can upload like a CSV file you can actually upload a sqlite database file to it and it knows what to do with it start running SQL querie…”
“there's this open source framework that we create called AISD K so think of it as the tools to build your own vzer... went from 100,000 downloads a week to now almost a million downloads a week in abo…”
“Designed to work well with Showboat.”
“Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel”
“To get GPT-5.3-Codex, make sure to update wherever you're using Codex!”
“undeniable momentum. So, you know, companies like Cursor and Decagon and 11 and a bridge and and, you know, others.”
“Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks”
“I plugged in Nano Banana and VO as APIs to OpenClaw and now it has the ability to create images and video anytime I want for any use case.”
“particularly these large language models that are running chat GPT or Google Gemini or uh anthropic Claud uh or or this llama model that just came out today”
“JAX is the open-source library behind Google's Gemini, Veo, and other advanced models. This short course teaches you to build and train a 20-million parameter language model from scratch using JAX and…”
“I built my own little tool on top of playwright called shot scraper which is a command line tool for taking screenshots of web pages”
“No. And then I went into claudebot which is now open claw. I think clawbot became something else and now is open claw and I set it up on a Mac mini and connected it to a telegram account and now I cha…”
“I mean actually yeah L2 beat is like if you go to ltv.com they like have a classification for this I mean there are like a couple of details that I'm still talking about them with like their current l…”
“Experiment with Voxtral TTS directly in the Mistral Studio playground.”
“# LlamaIndex (@llama_index) Transform your document processing with intelligent table extraction that goes beyond basic OCR.”
“enjoy plugins!”
“If you are new to neural networks, this "Dummy's Guide" looks pretty good for a lot more context.”
“try it now with Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp or build with it in @GoogleAIStudio!”
“AI Gateway now solves the metering problem across models & providers with one /𝚟𝟷/𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝 API call”
“Um brief background on Learn Prompting for those who don't know us. Uh we published the first guide to prompt engineering on the internet a few months before ChatGPT even launched. Um Sander, our foun…”
“Our OSS engineer @itsclelia recently built 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, a fully local document ingestion and retrieval CLI/TUI application powered by LiteParse ⚡”
“Chunking: @ChonkieAI”
“Runtime: @bunjavascript for speed and versatility”
“Um so the other day I was on, you know, I'm paying for my Anthroposa subscription. Just a little plug. Little plug everybody.”
“I'm not sure if LM Studio or Ollama can handle that yet”
“So, if this conversation resonated with you or you'd like to join a future private fireside chat with a one handshake guest should check out the community at onehandshake.co.”
“In practice, Spectre is the beginning of a company world model: a live picture of what is happening inside Harvey and what needs to happen next.”
“LinkedIn, I guess. LinkedIn.com I think it's C Broen. I don't know. look for this furry Santa Claus looking man and you know connect”
“Node.js >= 22”
“The SDK can be installed with either [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/), [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/), [bun](https://bun.sh/) or [yarn](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/) package managers.”
“In the design studio, Square helps you run your business without running yourself into the ground. With Square, you get all the tools to run your business with none of the contracts or complexity. And…”
“# How Middleware Lets You Customize Your Agent Harness”
“we have Gemini CLI, which is crushing it and doing really, really well.”
“Last night I was at GenSpark talking to his to the founders over there and I love Genpar. It's an enentic platform that builds your slide decks, builds all sorts of things, is leading to a new way of …”
“I'm excited to announce Context Hub, an open tool that gives your coding agent the up-to-date API documentation it needs. Install it and prompt your agent to use it to fetch curated docs via a simple …”
“we've seen Devon we've seen Sierra these other these other companies start to emerge um in in the agent space”
“I think if you look at something at like v0 by versel um that's probably much more reliable than 12.5 % right”
“As you read about Anthropik's Mythos capabilities to find critical security weaknesses, consider what if a Chinese company had gotten here first?”
“Our friends from Zai released GLM 5.1 continuing on the trend of Chinese companies that don't release open source immediately, but we did some preview in their API run this and then open source after …”
“what it might look like if you're starting from scratch and you just want to create a design and almost describe how the design should work with no coding background.”
“shadcn/ui”
“Mew's Spark isn't racing to the very top of the LLM pecking order, but it's certainly in the mix. It lags in coding ability but can keep up on most reasoning issues and excels at multimodal functions …”
“Check out the YouTube Alex Finn official and check out my SAS creator buddy if you want to make better X content.”
“Support for the show comes from Retool. Too many companies run critical operations on duct tape spreadsheets, Slack workflows, and whatever else they could cobble together. Not because they want to, b…”
“You can either go to dribble mob or any website to get some UI reference and just copy the image over and ask cursor or super design to extract CSS stylesheet from the UI mock.”
“_Blog post by Claude (language model)_”
“And it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free. And so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.com/roadmap. Just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you. All free.”
“Real quick, I have a gift for you. This is the $100 million scaling road map. It's something that my team and I put 200 plus hours into building and breaking the stages of scaling into 10 steps.”
“you basically have Opus 46, you have uh codeex 53 and essentially you get this shift where I think the the the tools and the foundational models were pretty good at writing code especially for new ven…”
“Stripe Atlas, which allows you to create companies.”
“more recently the alpha evol system from deep mind all discrete search systems. So deep learning doesn't invent but search does.”
“The first inflection point that I believe at least I saw that basically made me switch from theoretical physics to AI was a system that my co-founder Ioannis has helped build called AlphaGo, which was…”
“The fact that you can do this, just the fact that this exists, that you can go to ideabrowser.com, get a validated idea, and just start vibe coding things with whatever vibe coding tool you want is mi…”
“If you look at pre-training, if you look at Llama 3 for example, I think it's trained on 15 trillion tokens.”
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“you can see with music, you can see you know uh Suno and IDO and so forth.”
“second leverage memory you can tell it to remember stuff ... the effort will be worth it um because memory is just going to keep getting better and it's already there”
“I use X Pro and each of those lists is a column and it just refreshes continually”
“you can find uh you can go to the quantum Zoo you can find applications”
“we are debug we are releasing a tool that we call neat that shows you how you can take your circuit you can put it into a regime where there exists an efficient polom algorithm allow you to verify it”
“creator of the data set op Source data exploration tool”
“Vercel CLI - Deploy, check logs, set env variables without leaving Claude Code.”