“Monday's first guest was Zak Bratton-Glennon, a general partner at Gradient, the AI seed fund that launched inside Google in 2017 and spun out of Alphabet last October. His written thesis: open models have closed most of the gap on coding, and what remains is domain judgement ...”
“pair them up with AI agents, which can really read the code, understand the code, and some expertise of other more senior members of the team, and they can do a lot more than what someone could have done maybe 12 or 18 months ago.”
“I think we have some built-in advantages based on our business model that'll allow us to really be able uh to take advantage of the tools as they get better.”
“We're a couple years into um serious efforts in more generalised uh robotics at this point, right? If you compare it to about a decade for um LLMs, there's increasingly interesting demo results from companies on generalisation of task and environment, more robustness, maybe ev...”
“Right. And people. I mean, Jeremy Zimmer, our director of marketing for Academy, he was obviously integral in all of this. Macy, our social media, everyone. And then I built this brief and like, here's all of the things we could be doing with my knowledge, with AI's knowledge....”
“I mean, if you're, if you're going to bring in a consultant, they're just going to come in initially and like document processes, audit workflows. They're going to look at what the AI is going on again. Uh All could really be valuable.”
“that's probably going to be the most successful organizations is when it is a top 3 priority for the CEO and they are actively involved in everything.”