What "new" value can we create with AI? Brian, Justin, and Jordan talk about how we can be more creative and ambitious and build things we wouldn't have built before. We also chatted about Grok Bot and xAI's land grab (Cursor acquisition and the SuperGrok Heavy plan). Also... Brian broke up with Claude?!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:00 - Intro
03:34 - The sudden rise and appeal of Grokbot
11:49 - Claude fatigue and the shift toward chief-of-staff AI agents
14:55 - How product experience is replacing model quality in the AI race
18:09 - Cursor's speed advantage, pricing pain, and team switching costs
26:08 - Enterprise loyalty and why model quality will commoditize
43:44 - AI for autonomous entities, trust, and community integration
49:11 - Building AI-native vs. consumer vs. professional use cases
57:10 - Trust as the bottleneck in sensitive fields like personal finance
60:22 - Transistor's video launch, pricing model, and MCP integration
66:14 - Jordan's new capital deal and leveraging extra runway
72:12 - Customer success hiring and Builder Methods' non-developer expansion
90:15 - Wrap up
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Links mentioned in this episode:
- Jesse Hanley β Marketer, developer, and creator.
- Introducing Grok Bot β SpaceXAI's latest release.
- Shaan Puri on AI Loyalty β A candid take on switching tools.
- Cursor β The top AI coding agent.
- Caleb Porzio's Work Notes β Why Cursor outpaces Codex.
- Amazonβs Anthropic Stake β IPO valuation insights.
- Polsia β AI that manages operations autonomously.
- Mostly Technical #145 β Exploring marketing as engineering.