Matt Tancik

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203 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The a16z Show · Building AI for Creators | Luma & Phota Labs · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And so making sure the tools are able to handle that level of iteration ends up being extremely important.

Yeah.

And this also makes it very hard to like benchmark these things because they're often isn't that ground tree in their head.

I think one thing to chime in on that, I've seen it multiple times now where people find very interesting ways to use tools, not just our tools, but our tools in addition to other tools that you never expected to work.

And for every reason it shouldn't work, but people find crazy ways to get these things to work.

There's so many, I would have to pick a little bit more.

Yeah, I think it's interesting to look at how creative tools have existed traditionally.

You look at your photoshops, your illustrators, you look at your blenders, whatever modality you're interested in.

If you hop into those programs, they're extremely complex, right?

You can literally have a whole career learning the ins and outs of these programs.

And so that's great.

for people who've had that time and that experience to invest in it, where agents come along and the ability to like have agents work with tools is then the ability to tune the tool to the user.

Some users, all they care about is, you know, relighting an image, removing a background.

Some want extreme levels of control.

So then the question is, how do you interact with an agent or whatever AI tool that you're working with that can choose that level of abstraction that makes sense for you?

I think it's false to assume that every user is going to want the same thing.

Exactly.

you look at directors of movies and some directors are, go super deep into the weeds of making sure that, you know, every glass is in the right place.

Whereas other directors, they don't care about any of that.

All they care about is like, oh, is the actor doing the line in the right way?

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