David Sacks

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The a16z Show · Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology Future · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And then the other one was just his observation that AI was middle to middle, whereas humans are end to end, and therefore the relationship is pretty synergistic.

And I think that's right.

I mean, I think all those observations resonate with me in terms of where we're at right now.

Yeah.

I mean, and the models work best when they have context, you know, and the more, I mean, we've all seen this, the more general your prompt, the less likely it is that you're going to be able to, you know, get, get a great response.

And I don't know if you tell the AI, you know, something very general, like what business can I create to,

and make a billion dollars, it's not going to give you something actionable.

You have to get very specific about what you're trying to do, and it has to have access to relevant data, and then it can give you some specific answers to a prompt.

And I think this is partly Balaji's point, which is the AI does not come up with its own objective.

It needs to be prompted.

It needs to be told what to do.

We've seen no evidence at this stage that that's changing.

step zero in terms of AI kind of, you know, somehow coming up with its own objective.

And as a result of that, you know, the model has to be prompted and then it gives you an output and that output has to be validated.

You have to somehow make sure it's correct because models can still be wrong.

And more likely you have to iterate a few times because it doesn't give you exactly what you want.

So now you kind of reprompt.

And we've all had this experience, right?

This is why like the chat interface is so necessary is because it takes you a few times to kind of iterate to get to the output that actually has value for you.

Again, you know, the humans are N10 and the AI is middle to middle.

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