Kevin Weil

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.

Because on average, models are going to improve really fast.

And what's a weakness from one model will not be a weakness of the next.

So like the I think the thing to be building is like what we talked about at the beginning, reimagining use cases from first principles, building them from the ground up with AI.

And if you're in a place where you're excited about the next model that comes out, because that's what's going to make your product sing, that's a great place to be.

Oh, people are incredibly excited.

I mean, how could you not be?

I use products that Johnny designed my entire day.

He's been a part of building some of the most sort of cherished products and hardware that we use every day.

How could you not want to work with him?

Getting to know him through the process and other things, he's also such a lovely human being.

For somebody who's accomplished so much, he is so humble, thoughtful, kind, soft-spoken,

And then, you know, he'll say something sometime and you'll be like, oh, my God, like that is a completely different way of looking at the world.

And that opens my eyes to something that I just had never thought about.