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Balaji Srinivasan

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The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

I think this is worth reading carefully and maybe figuring out what the true graphs are from his critique of it, taking into account that, yeah, with Claude Code and Claude Co-Work and so on and so forth, definitely, but also taking into account that it basically like speeds up, I don't know, your guys' view is on this, but I find that it's basically like managing, you know, where you have to write the whole thing up

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And that's actually a lot of work, the context engineering, you know what I mean?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Because you're sensing the world and you have to articulate that in clear written English and describe exactly the result.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

The prompting and verifying then just takes up all the work.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

That brings me to my next point, which is AI actually destroys arguably as many... You know why?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Why?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Because, for example, take resumes, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

AI makes... It wasn't that hard to make a resume before.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

AI does make it easier.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You know what makes...

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It makes it hard to verify a resume.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

AI makes it easy to write an email.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It wasn't that hard to write an email before, but now it makes it really hard to filter them, okay?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So many market strangers between tribes, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So recruiting, sales, marketing are being destroyed.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

A spam, AI slops, AI scam, anything which is between economically disaligned tribes, there's so much...

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

that that channel is now defeated.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It wasn't built for that level of adversarial behavior.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It wasn't built for a channel where 99% of inbound, that it can beat the probabilistic fake detectors, like AI spam detectors broken, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Your normal filter is broken.