Kevin Weil

In order to build the actual thing that people want to build, you've got 10 different companies having to go build the exact same piece of like foundational infrastructure.

You should probably just provide that.

And then those 10 companies can go do like more interesting stuff.

And I've always remembered that story.

It's really stuck with me because I think the fact that people are just going to expect more and more out of these platforms is very real.

But the upside is all for third parties in this, for developers in this world, because if the platform provides more of the building blocks,

then they can spend less time re-implementing the wheel on these building blocks and more time doing the thing that they actually uniquely add value in.

And AI is going to change absolutely everything in our life.

Any industry, any vertical, any geography that you can imagine, AI is going to touch.

And so there's so much...

opportunity for developers to reinvent and reimagine.

I think anything that we can do on the platform side to help accelerate that by making the more of the building blocks easy, we should be doing.

I mean, almost everywhere.

There's so much opportunity.

Sam said this one time and it stuck with me.

He said, if you're building a company and you're building at the frontier of the model capabilities, if you're building something that really just barely works and you can't wait for our next model because you know it's going to make your product sing, then you're probably building in the right place.

Because you're introducing something new to the world.

You're making something possible that wasn't possible before.

And that's where you want to be.

If instead, you're building some sort of scaffolding around that covers up the weaknesses of a current model, and you're actually afraid of our next model because it might not have those same weaknesses, that's a bad place to be building.