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Vibe Coding Hardware

Part 2 of our new format with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Sonic), and Max Hodak (Science). 00:35 Vibe Coding A Turbine Blade 04:04 Open Source Compounds China’s Advantage 06:12 You Always Want The Smartest Model 08:41 Software Still Needs Hands 10:40 Humans Are Becoming Verifiers Transcript: http://nav.al/hardware

Sell the Truth

00:00 Be Credible 03:18 “Yes, And” 04:31 Selfish Honesty 05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love 07:56 Don’t Manage, Lead 11:16 Hunt Together 14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions 18:57 Sell the Truth 21:07 Good Deal or No Deal 23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns — Transcript: http://nav.al/sell [http://nav.al/sell] USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.

‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over

00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup 04:14 You Don’t Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore 06:55 May You Live in Interesting Times 10:40 Drones Democratize Violence 12:43 Biothreats Could Also Get Democratized 15:09 AI Interfaces Unlock Hardware 17:35 Optimism Requires Creativity -- Transcript: http://nav.al/over [http://nav.al/over] USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.

A Return to Code

A Return to Coding 00:15 The Personal App Store 03:08 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:12 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:23 A Place for Each Model 14:09 AI Is Eager to Please 17:44 Why Math and Coding? 21:58 The Beginning of the End of Apple’s Dominance 24:04 Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:43 -- Transcript: http://nav.al/code [http://nav.al/code] Presented by AngelList: http://angellist.com/podcast [http://angellist.com/podcast] We founded AngelList and have equity in the company.

A Motorcycle for the Mind

If you want to learn, do 0:00 Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13 Training models is the new coding 6:49 Is traditional software engineering dead? 10:13 There is no demand for average 13:07 The hottest new programming language is English 14:12 AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 18:36 No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 22:56 The goal is not to have a job 26:46 AIs are not alive 29:49 AI fails the only true test of intelligence 32:55 Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 36:49 AI meets you exactly where you are 39:37 Always leverage the best intelligence 43:02 If you can't define it, you can't program it 44:37 The solution to AI anxiety is action 49:37 -- Transcript: http://nav.al/ai