OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)

The AI models that you're using today Is the worst AI model you will ever use. For the rest of your life. And when you actually get that in your head, it's kind of wild. Everywhere I've ever worked before this, you kinda know what technology you're building on, but that's not true at all with AI. Every two months, computers can do something they've never been able to do before, and you need to completely think differently about what you're doing. You're chief product officer of maybe the most important company in the world. world right now. I want to chat about what it's just like to be inside the center of the storm. Our general mindset is in two months there's gonna be a better model and it's gonna blow away whatever the current set of limitations are. And we say this to developers too. If you're building and the product that you're building is kind of right on the edge of the capabilities of the models, keep going, because you're doing something right. Give it another couple months and the models are gonna be great, and suddenly the product that you have that just barely worked is really gonna sing. Famously you led this project at Facebook called Libra. Libra is

Probably the biggest disappointment of my career. It fundamentally disappoints me that this doesn't exist in the world today because the world would be a better place if we'd been able to ship that product. We tried to launch a new blockchain. It was a basket of currencies originally. It was integration into WhatsApp and Messenger. I would be able to send you Fifty cents in WhatsApp for free. It should exist. To be honest, the current administration is super friendly to crypto. Facebook's reputation is in a very different place. Maybe they should go build it now. Today my guest is Kevin Wheel. Kevin is chief product officer at OpenAI.

which is maybe the most important and most impactful company in the world right now, being at the forefront of AI. and AGI and maybe someday super intelligence. He was previously head of product at Instagram and Twitter. He was co-creator of the Libra cryptocurrency at Facebook, which we chat about. He's also on the boards of Planet and Strava and the Black Managers Network and the Nature Conservancy. He's also just a really good guy.

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