Shawn Ryan

We could say like, okay, Sam Altman, you're saying ChatGPT-8 is going to solve quantum gravity.

Let's put some parameters on that and make a bet.

And if you like do it by that timeframe, whoever did it gets that prize pool.

If not, give that money to fund the researchers.

I don't know.

Like it'd be like, I think there's a fun way to do like XPRIZE with these deadlines because

The thing that scares me the most is there's a lot of confidence.

And once you start playing with the coding side of the products, I can see the confidence in it.

But to what extent... A company can always pivot and you can be like, that claim is bullshit, but they still will find something else that works and that's great for them.

So you don't want to short the company or anything like that.

How do you call them out a little bit when they're overzealous, if that overzealousness can hurt

On the flip side, though, I found that the agentic coding, vibe coding capabilities are just amazing because you can have all these little daydreams of how you want to interact with the physics paper.

And before, when I was a perimeter, they were supportive of me trying to use some of my grant money or startup money to hire some interns from local universities to code something up.

I was a shitty coder, so I'm not good at managing people at tasks that I don't know whether I'm asking them to do.

And then I was so bad, I couldn't even basically host this thing locally to show people what it was.

And within a few weeks, I could basically redev the same thing with Cloud Code, which is amazing.

So I...

I kind of see that sometimes that hype or that push can drive a product to a level where, like, now I don't need to hire a dev team.

As a physicist, I can start to play around with things that I couldn't have done if I didn't know how to code myself.

There's skill sets that are open to me because it's been kind of democratized.