Amjad Masad

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Apr

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We're approaching a certain plateau in how good coding models could get.

Cost question is secondary to the performance question.

When you focus on cost is when you reach a certain asymptotic plateau in the S-curve.

I think for all intents and purposes, ideas are dead.

The name of the game is just staying one, two, three, four, ten steps ahead.

My pleasure.

Great to be here.

It's more of the latter, right?

So the core insight that I had, even before we started the company,

maybe at this point, 20 years ago, was that software is much more transformative than we actually think it is.

You know, Mark Andrewsson wrote, you know, software is eating the world and all of that.

But I thought it's transformative for people's lives and for the prospect of wealth creation, wealth distribution, entrepreneurship, all of that.

Well, it's sort of my story.

You know, the impact it had on my life, you know, as a kid growing up in Jordan, coming to the US and now running a multi-billion dollar company.

And I've seen that even earlier than that.

When I was 15, I built a little business.

I was making hundreds of dollars and that was an amazing amount of money for me.

I took my entire class to McDonald's when it opened up in Amman.

And that was kind of the core insight.

And initially, when I came to the US, I worked at Code Academy.

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