Dan Shipper

after automation yesterday, I was like, who should I send this to?

And I was going to go through my texts and go through my emails and then whatever.

And I literally just said to Codex, hey, can you go figure out a couple people I should send this to?

And it came up with a bunch of investors, a bunch of journalists, a bunch of founders, all people who I've talked to in the last three months, but just going through my text messages, going through my emails.

And it's just a complete change in what is possible because it has access to all that stuff, which includes memories.

Yeah.

And one of the things I'm trying to do with this piece is to say, as a company, we've automated everything that we can.

Every single person has access to an agent.

They have access to as many tokens as they possibly can use.

And yet we've grown from four to almost 30 people since GPT-3.

So like, what the fuck is that about?

It's very counter to the narrative, I think, especially like the popular narrative right now with like,

Meta is laying people off and Block is laying people off and the ClickUp guy is like, I'm going to fire everyone.

It's only going to be 100x employees.

So I think there's a really interesting question here about if you're actually on the frontier like we are, it seems like there's more human work to do than ever.

Why is that?

So I did a bunch of work.

Yeah, it's interesting because it's very popular now to say AI in the layoff announcement, but it's also very popular to say, and our business is better than it's ever been.

What do you guys think about that?

I just feel like that's such a weird strategy or weird meme to be going around.