What John Bai thinks about LLMs

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Designer at SpaceXAI in New York working on Grok Bot, and the first New York design hire at Cursor.

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1. 25 Aug 2026

   Our readingThe fundamentals matter way more than how quickly someone works, how many tools they use, or how they optimise for the models.

   Their wordsI think at this point, the fundamentals matter way more than a lot of other factors. I think people tend to gravitate towards how quickly somebody works or how many different tools they have in their arsenal, how many skills they utilize or their optimization strategy for the models

   ↗John Bai - The Grok Bot design journeyyoutube.com 17th of 20 in this recording