The AI Future Has Arrived: Here's What You Should Do About It

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Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:18 - Intro 00:25 - How To Prepare 01:39 - Benefit Of Hindsight 02:54 - The Time Is Now 04:56 - Where To Work 06:49 - The Right Skills 09:37 - Become A User 11:46 - Don't Do Nothing 14:07 - Our Predictions 15:48 - Outro

[@winkletter]

Too true. I used to think air fryers were all hype. When I think of the missed years I could have been eating crispy nuggets!

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Yeah the intro is pretty weird. I personally was an early Gmail user, it saved my literally minutes of my life. Minutes!

[@JorgeBarba]

I remember signing up and using Gmail the first time. It was mind blowing! I remember the narrative becoming “the end of desktop apps”.

[@MBAnoBrainer_GMATPrep]

I’m from Brazil. This year I traveled to the US West Coast and to the US East Coast. Nowhere else I could feel a bigger FOMO than in Silicon Valley. It’s not just YC videos. It’s the whole SV atmosphere that causes this feeling. Thank you for sharing that with us from the rest of the world, Michael and Dalton! Let’s ride that wave!! I hope to be a YC founder one day! 💪

[@The-AIDAD]

02:12 Now is a prime time to leverage AI for new business opportunities. 04:18 Embrace AI adoption in your career and choose forward-thinking workplaces. 06:09 Startups are outperforming large companies in AI skill acquisition. 08:08 Upskill through accessible learning and embrace new technology today. 10:10 Embrace and actively use emerging AI tools for better productivity. 12:03 Capitalize on knowledge in tech; understanding programming remains valuable. 13:58 Technical expertise is crucial for leveraging AI advancements in startup success.

[@chickenkm]

Just using simple AI automations in my business was enough to convince me. This convinced me start learning the basics.

[@oiausdlkasuldhflaksjdhoiausydo]

"Ambivalence and cynicism are the only gatekeepers" - This is one of the best life and business videos I have ever watched.

[@WeylandLabs]

The thing about YC is that it's not about innovation or creation but who it fundamentally helps out more. It's an incubator for Wallstreet and investment firms to strategically buy out the start-up or die. YC is a great company don't get me wrong, its core values are flawed and ethically wrong in terms of controlling who it helps. My question is, why isn't YC a PBC if it's a sound business model ?

[@Dsan41]

What videos and resources do you recommend reading and watching since we are at ground zero and wanting to learn. I am not in the tech world but want to pivot … what are the best boot camps to learn to take advantage of this opportunity? There’s so much information out there that sometimes one doesn’t know if it’s the best videos to watch.. please advise!

[@nuthinking39]

Feels a bit we are already at the point where it’s more convenient to sell shovels.

[@tarotnautsapp]

I'm having anxiety of not doing the right thing actually. This is on point

[@leon2385]

What are some good resources to getting started, please?

[@nedyalkokarabadzhakov5405]

Browsers was free, models are not.

[@Notion688]

I learnt a lot from both of you Michel plus dalton , please continue it and keep sharing

[@dcrebbin]

6:00 Being surrounded by the right team and people is integral When I was tech lead for a govt innovation team I made a “gpt3 wrapper” pre ChatGPT and it got some good feedback but wasn’t at all taken on 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️ A lot of the time X idea could be amazing but due to your surroundings they don’t see the vision, hence why SF and YC are quite integral for increasing your chances of success

[@Captainmactavish28]

I currently work at a big company where using gen AI is a political and PR decision😂. That one really hit when Michael said it.

[@bizignite]

What’s regarded as a technical cofounder? Should they be knowledgeable as a product manager or systems architect or should they have a deep understanding of coding and building AI models? Especially true for coders that are being replaced by AI writing robust code.

[@thinkingcitizen]

They should be able to actually build the entire first mvp by themselves within 2 months. It’s not about high level knowledge

[@SteffenHauler]

Thanks for your videos. I completely agree. I work on llm agents for internal apis in a traditional company and the first demo after few months kept some coworkers speechless. I completely can see how this will affect the future. I can see myself starting a company, but I don't see a viable business idea.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Great video... couldn't agree more. Looking back and I'm already glad to have pivoted my work toward AI animation early on... mid '2022. Rather that sticking still with my 10 year old studio. Now have the #1-#2 website on the subject of AI Animation. A decent audience and been able to pivot full time to the subject and dev pursuits. It's lead to AI Consulting projects for some cool project names, plus I've rolled out a few courses... not the end goal.. but it keeps the lights on and helps fund the solo dev projects with those $M goals. Various prototypes for AI use cases always bubbling along.. (I really... REALLY need to get at least one of those released soon). Either way the dev time on these prototypes lead to a broad understanding of AWS computing, React, APIs etc... Which I think, combined with the focus on a specific area (professional AI animation) will remain useful.

[@AlexWilkinsonYYC]

I think AI likely is a winner take all market. I'd rather use Claude and NeoVim and have Claude just use my keyboard than be forced to use Cursor's clunky VS code based interface. Cursor is cool, but its essentially just Claude all the way down, and as Claude improves, the value of startups that simply wrap a UI around it decrease. This is not the same thing as CRUD web apps wrapping SQL dbs, and people seem to be conflating the two. Dot com bust of non-foundational AI companies coming up in a couple years? Probably. 🤔

[@sibinarendran5719]

I just left everything including a company i bootstrapped to 2M $ ARR a month with profits(interior design executors), to hands of my father, and moved to chennai yesterday to found my AI company , we are building a AI dental crm first

[@SitkaMushroom]

Enjoyed it. Thank you

[@Saitanen]

The more I watch YC videos, the more it reminds me of a cult. Nothing personal. Just... strange.

[@semsomify]

why is that?

[@Whole-j4i]

Transhumanists... but who cares? It's their (exponential) tech I care abt not their beliefs...

[@SamBhattacharyya]

Yeah, I agree, but as someone in the middle of it building a new product, working through bugs and customer issues, the occasional message of reaffirmation is helpful to motivate powering though the muck of building a new company even if there's no new information in the video

[@fanaccount6600]

Maybe you kinda need that mentality to build a new company!

[@cherubin7th]

You don't have an altar dedicated to Michael at home? Weird...

[@george_davituri]

World is changing, so let's find the right wave and rode it straight to the customers.

[@CJAYMUTUMBA]

Building purpose-led AI solutions will differentiate the 'hype" builders and the true disruptors! Meet you at the top brother!🚀🚀

[@griot1722]

great video, student founders should value this

[@tpwb5882]

This is not some hype that comes and go like some ppl say it is, this is probably the biggest revolution in human civilization.

[@paritoshkanoria9728]

ive started an ed company. i dont know how to code. do i need to know how to code? or can i just learn how to use no-code AI tools?

[@Mackcolak-xf5bk]

You cherrypicking successful trends from the past. I am not saying that AI is a fad; it's certainly not, and it is the most profound direction of development now. But to be fair to the listeners, you should also mention fad technologies (which were many) that had the same groundbreaking vibe but ended up in a trashcan of history. That's how you can distinguish worthy and not worthy directions instead of jumping on any hype happening right now.

[@AmirulHamizan]

Give me 1 fad tech trend?

[@Mackcolak-xf5bk]

@AmirulHamizan NFTs, most of cryptocurrencies, lot's of battery tech that have not passed real world tests, hundreds and hundreds of google projects that were closed, 95% of startups...

[@Friday4]

@@AmirulHamizanVR industry especially apple and meta not to mention google glasses that who’re seen as a revolutionary but. Nothing today

[@trumputin8235]

@@AmirulHamizan IoT, VR, driverless cars, crypto, nft, ai every decade or so is hyped up like crazy them fails to live up to its earth shattering expectations. That dos not mean LLMs useless, they are a great tool but nothing more, we need to take them for what they are and not what all the hype peddlers with a financial interest in their success continue to sell us on its so called certain future.

[@caffeinum]

@@AmirulHamizanVR, had plenty of early adopters, but it has been 10 years and we’re still in the early adopter phase (saying as the proud sequential owner of every Quest headset released)

[@billy-bund]

Are there any interesting companies at YC right now that don’t have ai as the main selling point of their product?

[@warrenb2856]

4:27: 99+% of people are still clueless about bitcoin.

[@Computer-v5e]

My fav series

[@andrewn247]

Would love to hear from Y combinator how folks can found companies that won’t get steamrolled by OpenAI. If they’re building AGI, how can you make something and not get steamrolled?

[@ycombinator]

Evals.

[@kmaximoff]

Dalton & Michael, I am applying to YC winter batch, my startup falls in category of both B2B SaaS and Hard tech? Is there any guidance on which category to choose?

[@_HealthWealthandRelations]

AI is making our lives so much easier.

[@cherukuri20]

The constant giggling and sarcasm by these two is distracting.

[@Teatea9527]

use the new powerful tool to equipt myself to sovle the real problems. new tech + real problems = new industry

[@tyronetangata-makiri9323]

lol the comments make me laugh. I’ve watched numerous videos of Michael and Dalton cooling the fire on AI. This is one (if not the first) time that I’ve really heard them push its time to jump on the AI train. Good to see them finally shift their position and give us the heads up.

[@prakharjain2548]

Excited Excited Exciteddddd !!!!

[@ながれる季節]

I love these two fucking guys, keep the vids comin bitches

[@matterhart]

I believe we're at the mainframe stage for AI, and we'll get today's models or better running on local consumer hardware within 10ish years. Then we'll get ASI in the mainframe, and then some years after that, ASI will be on local consumer hardware. It's going to be wild.

[@simonesalsi1126]

NINETY seconds in and I feel like I’m being pitched an AI product. Leveraging FOMO and all as well. At this point YC’s channel is just part of their funnel, not even meant to educate anymore.

[@utkarsh911jj]

Well I can understand why you would make that argument, but I am genuinely curious let say it's a part of their funnel, then doesn't that mean they want more people to have this skill so that they can invest more. Now if a big VC is betting that more of such companies will be valuable, don't you think we should try to build that skill too?

[@ivaylosl]

So which part of what they said is false?

[@abeaz2193]

This is flawed argument. How does one contradict the other? Why is it so hard to believe that 'helping their marketing funnel' and 'educating people' can have major overlap? The fact that they have personal interest in promoting AI does not mean that promoting AI is bad

[@maxiprimo]

Great!

[@idahsons]

Nailed it.

[@makenvaega]

Any suggestions for good KZbin channels / other sources to learn this stuff?

[@abuzarhussain28]

Stanford online

[@gitanjalidua6439]

Is YC only considering AI ideas or startups for their winter cohorts?

[@LeonPetrou]

At 8:28 are you perhaps referring to my KZbin video of how transformers work?

[@njdarda]

wow those improving models are making life so much better. poverty, hunger, misinformation, crime, wars, homelessness - it's all gone!!! oh wait - it's just marketers and scammers that benefit...

[@Hastingsnow]

Thank you!

[@jarvis2324]

World's gonna change like never before and we are going to do it, see it and feel it.

[@learncoding_one]

Cannot take seriously tech people who keep repeating iPhone IPhone like 19 yo. Get over it. First get over the hype of the 'iPhone moment' and keep your propaganda to yourself.

[@janmotycka]

Drop the relevant yt channels to learn from in the comments please , thanks!

[@addy01999]

This is how this exactly works : let's hype everything to the limit for the incoming founders to YC and also next stage (Seed) investors. Absolutely no value in this video. Might be just two dudes sitting in a bar and yapping around.

[@NDIZITV]

You guys are laughing a bit too much. Did someone lace your juice with shroomz 😂. Good info though. I’m in Kenya. I have a couple of ideas I wanna build but I’m having difficulty raising 100 dollars to just pay for tokens. Any wellwisher wanna give me a shot?

[@janejustin1788]

hahaha, wah, kenyans wanaombaomba huku 😂 😂

[@LeonidKotelnikov-jg9fi]

you’re my best friends

[@elliptictree]

Interesting

[@__tobi__276]

Why are they laughing too much?

[@femialiu]

@Y Combinator can you please come up with a list of skills?

[@devon9374]

“Certainly resilience, adaptability and familiarity with the tools”

[@femialiu]

@@devon9374 thanks. I meant a list of technical skills.

[@danimalik7078]

know how to sell shovels.

[@femialiu]

@@danimalik7078 definitely!

[@pelangos]

AI waifus will eventually dominate the universe

[@orangedaisies]

What's a waifu?

[@pelangos]

@orangedaisies try a Google search or searchGPT then report back

[@leugim8872]

Pivoting now

[@Rexitaxi]

I am working on an start-up rexitaxi. A new way to ride.

[@levfilimonov1244]

Now your audience will finally know that using AI and having a technical co-founder is very important! Thank you for the insides, guys

[@isaiahballah2787]

😂

[@nathanbanks2354]

There's a gap between knowing that mobile will be a huge thing and developing Waze, Uber, or Angry Birds. I know LLM's are improving, and Meta will probably release a free an omni voice-to-voice model like GPT-4o, but it's still difficult to know how to leverage the new technology. It's more complicated than buying a GPU and mining bitcoin.

[@CJAYMUTUMBA]

Truly agree with this take

[@vio6319]

Absolutely love that there are

[@DTrackFinder]

That’s simply the biggest revolution (maybe besides fire discovery)

[@romeolatch]

To answer your question, AI is improving stepwise in shorter periods; this can continue with more use and adoption. Plus, we need energy to run. 😮

[@aqeel1712]

1:30 😆

[@sandeepnair5709]

Everything is so vague. Nothing specific.

[@fadzimkandla4433]

lol use your brain mate, this revolutionary tool is at your disposal, its up to you to decide what killer application to build. Don't expect to be spoon fed.

[@suryaprashanthjsp]

Thanks Michel.

[@big8611]

All the part of the programmer that I was mediocre are now done by the AI :)

[@thedatasync5248]

I feel that GenAI is much more fundamental from a CPA perspective. Yet, at the same time, accessible. It's doing to text what spreadsheets did to numbers. Before VisiCalc, numbers were static entities requiring specialist knowledge to manipulate. Spreadsheets transformed them into dynamic, manipulable tools that reshaped how businesses operate. Similarly, GenAI is turning text from fixed content into fluid, programmable material that anyone can shape and analyze. This isn't just another tech wave - it's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with information itself.

[@munshi.brojeet]

Good insight. As a fellow CPA, I wholeheartedly agree

[@LucaNova101]

AI < Smartphone < Computer < Electricity < Steam Engine < Fire

[@isaiahballah2787]

been non stop building AI tools and felt this way since July 2022

[@nathanbanks2354]

GPT-3 was super impressive.

[@rickitekgaaso2927]

The real breakthroughs in AI applications may not come from programmers, but from people in various industries who are constantly watching AI's progress and looking for ways to apply it in their fields. By teaming up with developers to create software and launch companies, these domain experts can lead the way. In fact, as AI evolves, programming itself may become obsolete, empowering anyone to build their own software. The next wave of successful founders will likely be industry experts who are proactive about using AI in their domains, rather than programmers.

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

You can't do anything about it unless you are already RICH.....

[@rm-sh6ze]

You dont need money to get into YC or learn

[@ravigahlla]

What a poignant video

[@samobano8052]

I wrote a manuscript for a book in one week, the first draft in one month. I agree that people just don't understand how much the world has already changed because of this tech. Dark whisperer on royal road, it's a work in progress but go check it out if you want to see what can be done

[@JorgeBarba]

I remember signing up and using Gmail the first time. It was mind blowing! I remember the narrative becoming “the end of desktop apps”.

[@nathanbanks2354]

It took me a while to get an invitation for my gmail account...

[@stableandhappy]

Thank You 🙏❤

[@LeonidKotelnikov-jg9fi]

you’re my best friends

[@bahroum69]

cringe