Nick Statt

So Nilay, how do you think about AI on Decoder, about covering AI more generally?

And also the fact that it seems like literally every single CEO we have on the show is basically tripping over themselves to say AI is the...

I think that's going to define our future.

It's going to supercharge our businesses.

And we have to invest in it because if we don't, we're going to get left behind.

One listener, Asif Sagi, wrote in about your prediction last year related to the creator economy, Nilay.

So you brought it up a little bit earlier that you are kind of always keeping an eye on the creator economy, what might happen to it.

He's asking specifically, do you think that with AI dominating the industry right now, will we even notice or hear the creator bubble bursting?

Or do you think the creator economy has already corrected itself?

We have to take another short break.

We're back.

This is Decoder Senior Producer Nick Stapp, and me and my fellow Senior Producer Kate Cox are grilling Nilay with all of your questions for our Holiday Mailbag Special.

We just spent a good chunk of time talking about AI, how we cover it here at Decoder and The Verge, and how that's become rather tricky as the topic only continues to get more polarized.

Now we want to take a look ahead, talk about some guest suggestions, and our plans for Decoder in 2026.

That was a perfect segue into our next question, which is about repeat guests.

In particular, listener Ian wanted to know how that happens.

He says, you often say to a guest at the end of an interview that it'd be great to have them back, but what's your decision-making framework around actually getting them back?

Do you wait for a new product, a book?

Do you set a reminder like the one I have for 2030?

And this person actually has a screenshot of their reminders app where they say, contact Nilay Patel and remind him that the metaverse will have a great year in 2030.