Ben Thompson
speaker
518 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And again, it sounds douchey to talk about because I pay someone to take my garbage out and process my mail.
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But, you know, as I try to articulate, I'm a massive believer.
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I think it's a common trope to say this, but I've been thinking about this since I was little.
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Don't obsess about your weaknesses, like how bad I am at processing mail.
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Double down on your strengths and then pay someone to take care of your weaknesses.
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That is generally my life philosophy.
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And this is certainly the case here.
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But what has been super striking, and it actually has been arguably the most profound experience I've had with AI, was...
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So the home assistant obviously depended on this – or the home inventory app depended on the assistant actually doing all the work.
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And he could see the utility, appreciated it.
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From his perspective, it helped me take care of the house.
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It was nice to actually get organized as opposed to me just saying, oh, just leave it in the corner.
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We're going to get to it eventually.
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And it had been a year, and we hadn't gotten to it eventually.
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But when we actually –
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when I actually built an agent or a bot called Gecko Bot, there's this massive, like metallic gecko structure that I bought the Madison Art Fair at
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my wall.
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So it is now called we named it after it.
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That's the icon called Gecko Bot.
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And
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