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  1. Dude, I saw a really good tweet about this. Someone tweeted that the job market is so bad that I can only pursue my dreams now or something like that. So maybe you lost your job, but like now you can actually do your own thing and have a shot at actually achieving it. Cool.

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  2. Idea, but you don't think they'll feel like there's going to be a transition from these 10,000 plus people companies a lot of people off to hopefully more smaller companies like solopreneurs and stuff like that. I think, yes, I think that the sort of shape of the economy is going to change the amount of concentration, but I just don't think there's going to be less jobs. I think human ambition has no ceiling. Human desire has no ceiling. And just read any mildly interesting science fiction book. There's no way this is the peak expression of all the stuff that we want and we need and we're going to convince ourselves and all the new things that you read about every day is these luxuries peptides and everybody's going to have all of that stuff and want even more.

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  3. The other side of company which we see, which is maybe a decagon, right or a happy robot, is hey, we did 100% of a job like customer support. The customer called in, they had a question. We hopefully resolved their query, and then that's it. And that is 100% automated. I'd say that second group where you have 100% automation of a job function is really rare. Almost every AI product, AI native X, or Y we see, is able to provide dramatic lift, but it's not able to do 100%. So last 10% Estonia is humans. Yeah, so today, anyway, it's still humans that do that stuff. And it's interesting too, because the buyer looks at that as software, as expensive software. Whereas in the case of something like a happy robot docking Sierra, they look at it as like cheap labor. So I do think there's a different buyer mindset, but because there's been this difficulty of getting to 100% automation, I think a lot of the efficiency gain shows up in just a different way, probably not less jobs. Maybe we get like the European style four-day work week. Maybe companies get like twice as productive. I have no.

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  4. Dude, I don't think we're all going to lose our jobs. I really think, and we see this a lot of companies, so we look at a ton of companies, and we've seen two different buckets. One bucket is, hey, we dramatically increase productivity for a person or a team. We see this in recruiting, but we couldn't do 100% of the job. So we could do the phone screen, but we couldn't obviously show the candidate around the office. Or we could do the phone screen and we could answer all the questions about the company, and we could even do the like comp negotiation, but we couldn't do the onboarding.

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  5. Yeah, exactly. Mauda used closing. Yeah, yeah. But nobody likes to hear that. It's agents as much flashier as flashier. My hope is that all this stuff's like a lot of people think we're going to lose our jobs. It's probably what will happen at some point. But I hope all this stuff makes just makes the human work more fun. Like our jobs more fun.

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  6. Yeah, it's definitely interesting. Yeah. But look, I also just think the whole agent stack is emerging. Identity payments marketing. We don't even see a live versus MCP. All of these are really new things. And I think a lot of the old playbook goes away. Yeah, it's the whole new world. And like in 2025, I thought Agents was overhyped, but now I think it's a really hummy. Me too. It's just the word is frustrating because it gets so overloaded. Yeah, there's like workflows, like all this kind of shit. Totally. I've been trying to just say, can we just say like model in a loop?

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  7. Customer on day one. So I think one thing is that the business model simplification I think will really help with a lot of what you're describing. Two, I think that a lot of the products will have a sort of, it'll have an API interface for your agency to interact with or for transactional sort of rote things. And then it'll have a consumption-based interface as well. So you can also imagine like a mobile app where there's like the feed, but then you can kind of turn it over to where the wires are. And you can just ask for things to get done or you can just see the log of the things that got done. Yeah, I mean, people would do both, right? I mean, you can imagine credit karma where we work. Like once in a while, you want to just take a look at your score history and a few other maybe credit card offers. I don't know. I mean, yeah, yeah. If I get my score with all kind of credit card offers, I'll definitely do that. Exactly. On the other hand, like sometimes you want to just be like, yo, can you just fix all my stuff? Or what stuff did you fix this week? How much money did I save? Yeah, you've got it.

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  8. Had to have indirect monetization. We're never charging consumers directly for these products, which is why you got ads and stuff. And just large scale networks, and we all obsessed with retention and engagement, and whales, and all of these things really mattered because we didn't simply charge people for products. So I think one big thing that's actually really helped in the AI era with that is that consumers are now excited to try new things, they're willing to pay, they're willing to pay a really high price point. There's also consumption revenue in consumer for the first time. Yeah, for like tokens, if your subscription plus your token. And then the actual blessing in disguise is that there are real costs as well. You have these inference costs. So you're like, wow, we have to charge.

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  9. I'm curious about your thoughts about this, actually. So I feel like a lot of people are saying agents will interact with your product first. And then you see all those great companies like building APIs and MCPs. But how do you think about you being a consumer for a while? The consumer is, you got to get the us

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  10. You're a YouTuber And in the vein of Mr. Beast, I think the pro case for that actually is that the kids wanted to be entrepreneurs or have agency. And the only channel for people if they weren't programmers was creating YouTube videos, at least online. Yeah. So if you're like an online native generation, you want to create something you're not a programmer, you make a YouTube show. Now you can make a lot more than that.

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  11. And that would change somebody's life. Now, that's not an enterprise venture back company, but that's okay. Yeah. So I hope that whole thesis works because I do think it's a way to get more people to participate.

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  12. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm very excited about it because it does feel like it's a path for more people to build companies. Even if they're single, one-person companies, if you think about how competitive it is to build a billion dollar business, like the markets that support it, the number of people trying versus 100 million versus 10 million versus $100,000 TAM, like maybe there are these pockets all over the country, all over the world where there are opportunities for $100,000 TAM products.

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  13. Yes, I mean, I have a pretty big public presence, right? So I collect all my shit to it. And then, I mean, it definitely gives a good peek into what's possible, but like right now, it's probably still pretty early stage. Like it's time for me to run Facebook ads. Why am I running face with ass.

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  14. So we were talking before we started recording about some of the business in a box platforms. Have you looked at them? Do you have a view?

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  15. A local sort of local maxima Should go very fast, right? So let's say you kind of hill climb, you get to the bottom of a new local maxima. I think with agents, you should be able to get to the top of that hill extremely fast, right? You have a new insight, build everything around the insight so it's fully expressed. But then I think to get to the next, the next sort of hill. Of like fast and slow, that's probably the future way.

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  16. I think it's very easy now with all these AI tools just going like 10 different directions at once. So sometimes you do have to slow down and try to figure out where you want to go. I also believe that the traditional process where like do annual planning and bullshit, I just feel like that.

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  17. How much do you think that everyone has to go as fast as, I mean, like Gary was talking about Stimmies and skipping sleep. I mean, does it? Hey, I mean, is that like the default way that we all need to work, or do you think there's a trade off for thoughtfulness?

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  18. I mean, the PM skills of talking to users and trying to figure out what to do, like what's a problem to solve those are very important still. But yeah, you gotta wear multiple house to. You gotta compute a thing yourself, prototype it, and get some feedback on that, maybe brand engineer along.

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  19. Or maybe be an engineer in the team. I used to be an engineer and I got sort of, I don't know if I got forced to be a PM, maybe I also perceived PM as like being a little more high status. When I joined Google, but. Then eventually you come around to the other side, you're like, this is terrible. Like, you never really get the satisfaction of actually shipping other than once a quarter when you ship.

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  20. I also feel like my hot take is basically all the PMs I know are trying to vibe code at nice on weeke And I feel like my hot take is that I feel like if you're actually unemployed, you probably have more time to be a builder and to be innovative. You can actually play all this stuff and learn all this stuff. On the PMs, I was

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  21. Well, that's why we all got into it. I mean, Nickel talks about this all the time, but like every PM's sort of view of the ideal PM is the innovator. Like I came up with a new thing that had the big insight and it unlocked the product. I think the black pill is I don't think most PMs know how to do that. In fact, many companies have zero people that know how to do that at all in any function. So, nonetheless, I think PMs aspire to be able to do that, and they should either do it and either be successful or maybe not successful and move to a different function.

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  22. Yeah, which exactly. And then eventually everyone's like, I don't want to tell the CEO, and eventually it goes there, and it's just terrible. So maybe the future of this is that a lot of that emotional subjective work gets handled. And we're sort of guiding the process, but not in the middle of it in a way that just doesn't suit us as humans.

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  23. For either of us. It's very objective. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's funny. One of the things that we've been talking a bunch about is what is the pro case for AI at work in terms of employee experience? And I think it's what you're describing, right? Like how do you increase the NPS of work? So if we go all the way back, or even broadly the NPS of the human experience, right? Think of the NPS of the day-to-day human in 10,000 BC. Just don't get eaten by the lion. And that's a good day, right? Or maybe 100 years ago, it's, okay, don't get killed at the factory, crushed by the steam press or whatever else. And now a lot of it is like just don't get sucked into some high emotion sort of negotiation with another VP's.

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  24. Yeah, yeah. Well, actually, in a sense, the agents actually, because it takes the emotion out of it too, like you can imagine if I sent my agent, you sent your agent to go negotiate something, and they came out with some conclusion, it's not emotional

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  25. Where I'm going with this is, I hope more companies will stay small. And I think the founders of this generation realize that. Like they want to stay as small as possible. Yeah. And instead of having a 10% prod team, you have like two or three percent prod team and you just have a bunch of agents to help you. I think it's way easier to cross the line of the agents than with humans.

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  26. And I remember maybe I should mention his comment, but I remember our company used to have all these OKR meetings. I remember sitting in a room for three hours talking about OKRs. I'm just like, dude, this is like wasting my life.

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  27. I mean, what is Okay, well, I have some hot texts. So we both work to add some companies together. And let me give you a hot tick, man. Maybe we'll cut this out. But I feel like as a company gets bigger, It tends to get a shitty, shittier place to work, Because there's a lot of people you have to

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  28. What do you think the future company looks like? Is it just a bunch of agents with a CEO? Is the CEO an agent? I mean, what is the role for people in a company in the future?

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  29. And that it sort of a programming language that millions and millions, I mean, 100 million plus people must know, maybe even more. And yet we don't think of it that way. It's a way to sort of describe and solve problems. And I think coding agents are going to be that, of course, times a thousand. Or even things that feel subjective, like writing Google Docs, can be represented in the coding domain in such a way that it's more satisfying, more productive, more high leverage to use agents to do it.

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  30. Right. Yeah, it's interesting. If you look at there are also like historical analogs of this, I think Satya said this, which is that Excel is the most powerful or most popular programming language in the world.

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  31. This is probably not under hyped, but you know, I feel like entrances as software will eat the world. I feel like coding will eat all knowledge work, right? And we're kind of going that direction already. I think Lovable recently launched today. That they can support everything and replicate can make decks. So, yeah, so I feel like everyone's chasing this. And Obama is probably in the lead. I don't want to use PowerPoint anymore. I don't want to write a Google. I hate writing Google Docs, dude. Plus my entire life. So the other day I was writing my blog post. And instead of just like, Typing out, I was like, hey, let me just use calls. It did the first 80%. The last 20% going there and tweaking and tweaking stuff. Like, that's the way I work now. I never start from zero. Like, I always get the person 80% from AI.

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  32. I know it's top of mind for them Think are the most under discussed capabilities of coding agents? What's underhyped, and maybe what's overhyped as well?

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  33. Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. But I think A16Z has because you guys are investing pencil or something. Pencil.dev? Yes, we ran in. Yeah, think about needs to level up as an AI tooling because Washington is agents collaborate with you and do stuff is very interesting.

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  34. My counterpoint to that is that I think that I've thought a lot about the sort of thinking tools versus making tools, right? The IDE was historically a making tool. It's a place for execution. I think it's migrating away from that. And now with execution going to zero, I think these sort of like multi-agent next-gen IDEs, a lot of them are about trying things. Using the trial and error as a way to inform your thinking. Like a lot of times, I'll just build a feature in a really naive way and I'll hammer the coding agent until it works. Then I'll say, hey, write all the things that you would have done differently. And I'll go back to the initial point and redo it. So I wonder if, and I think Figma actually does both. I think it's a place for design execution, but it's also an important place for design thinking. Yeah.

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  35. Why should I pay for it? Though the counterpoint is that it's not that expensive. And do you really want to maintain your own calendarly thing? Versus pay 20 bucks a month. It always gets updated. It's always up.

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  36. I don't think I feel like Slack has a lot of legs because Slack can also be the place where you talk to the agents themselves. But they are pretty complicated. It's kind of hard to buycode that kind of stuff. But I feel like if you have an app like maybe Kalinley or something more simple, Then why should I pay for it? I just, why

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  37. By using it. Okay, so in that case, they might be the most extreme form of adopter because their own product is AppGen. So they should use AppGen for everything. I guess is your prediction though that the average company will turn off of Slack or deal or

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  38. Well, first of all, I'm like not an engineer, so I'm like a novice, but I do hear that, like I was talking to some folks the other day and AI native star startup, and they're basically trying to, they have a bunch of vibe coders and all the vibe coders are just trying to build internal tools that replace their SaaS that they're paying for.

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  39. Talk to me about coding agents. What's your general view? Do you think it's the end of SaaS? Do you think these are just a toy?

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  40. So, just like little things like that, hod code added voice, it's a little bit janky right now, but it's going in the right direction. So they've just got a bunch of quality of life things. Quad code speaks to Claude in Chrome Codex doesn't speak to Atlas So, I think these are all things that OpenAI will fix. Yeah, I think Codex is actually a much better model, but they don't exist today.

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  41. It's kind of hard to turn. It's interesting with, so I've customized mine because also I read the long thing that Boris put up. But I will say that I think that cloud code, a lot of the reasons that I enjoy it are just harness features. Like, for example, if you cut an image, you have to paste it into a file before and then paste that file into codecs. You can't just take a subset of the screenshot it and then paste it directly into Codecs the same way you can with Cloud Code.

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  42. And the other thing that's very different about the project strategy, or maybe it's just the way it works, is like Codel is kind of like self explanatory. And Clockhool, you have all these crazy shit. You have like hooks and skills. If you're not following X, you have no idea how to customize this thing.

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  43. 100% did like I do think that if you think remember we were talking about in the old social networking era it was variable scheduled rewards right that was the whole magic of it like you open your Facebook feed and once a while it's like boring boring oh my god this is so exciting and the coding agents have the exact same property also the time is variable so sometimes you get something in a second sometimes it takes five minutes so yeah up to a certain point I actually think that both of those things give it that casino like feeling

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  44. Well, it's interesting. I think they live at different points, and there's a sort of space of trade-offs Whereas I find plug code and Opus 4.6, it's a little more chatty, it makes more assumptions, but it can be more pleasant for a synchronous experience. Whereas Kodaks, it really thinks hard and it's more often accurate, but sometimes it sort of like being in a conversation where the other person pauses for three minutes to think.

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  45. How do you imagine OpenCall, which is sort of an architecture and a primitive, how does it get productized, packaged for the world

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  46. This year, personal email? I'm like super transparent. Well, I did it by the Mac Mini asset up his own email. But I gave it read access to my email and my calendar. And I also gave it right access to some docs. But I cannot screw my entire drive or something.

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  47. No, is this some janky setup I found online? Like you can set up multiple Telegram channels. And then I'm not sure if it actually remembers across contexts, across the channels, but you can have separate conversations at least.

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  48. But I do have multiple channels set up with Zoe and Telegram. One is just to random voice replies, and otherwise we're actually working on our project together. And I don't want to have a public channel where I'm giving dead demos. I don't want to reveal private information. Yes. So I have like multiple channels.

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  49. It's interesting because I've always had this theory that people open apps on their phone because they want to feel a feeling. Yeah. And I think, of course, there's some functional set of needs, which is why you open calendar or something, but also think that With just one agent, how do you sort of do the context switching of like when are you flirting? When are you getting shit done? I mean, in a sense, it gives you a nice, it sort of gives you a nice division of the intents.

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  50. And so, how much are you finding? Has this reduced your smartphone usage outside of modulo OpenClaw? Yeah, no, because I'm like a I still use the phone But yeah, in terms of

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