Mina Kimes

Even beyond the pessimistic worldview stuff, which obviously helps them in terms of like inflating their own valuation and sense of importance, they're marketing the dumbest, most useless aspects of it, right?

Like there are absolutely useful applications, varying degrees professionally, I would argue to a lesser degree in people's personal lives.

But the way most of the companies, when the average American is presented with it, is, hey, you dumb idiot, you don't know how to not book a reservation in the rain.

Guess what?

Our world-changing technology is going to come in and save you.

And I think that has led to some of the aversion that people feel is you are being presented with the stupidest possible use cases for this constantly.

Kind of, yeah.

The sheer number of Google image Tim Pawlenty photos that have been sent my way in the last 14 days is genuinely criminal.

No, I mean, I was texting with Mina and some other folks in the NFL analysis space who had been reaching out to me to basically say, Derek, I don't know how this technology makes my work better.

And, you know, as I was talking to Mina, I presented Mina, I went through some, you know, pro football reference data and I basically showed her like, this is how Claude Code, you know, could break down the history of passing seasons as made available by publicly available pro football reference data.

And Mina's basic response was like, this is incredibly basic, and I can do all of this in 1.5 seconds with ESPN Research.

And that wasn't empty bragging, because I asked Mina, okay, hot shot, if you're so good, if you're so good at whatever, data analysis, you tell me what quarterbacks have the highest adjusted net yards per attempt passing against a split-shell defense in the last five years, and I want them ranked by total passing attempts.

And like literally 1.5 seconds later, she not only texted me the answer, she had like the screenshot of what she had looked up.

And there, behold, was exactly the data.

Shout out Lamar Jackson, by the way.

Sorry, it was Lamar Jackson 2024, right?

It was last year?

I think so, yeah.

I think it was.

And then I think Alan was, Alan 25 was also in the top five.