What Patrick Collison thinks about AI and human skill

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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1. 31 Jul 2026

   Our readingKnowing something yourself will stay faster than asking a model for it, because a lookup in your own head beats a round trip to an agent.

   Their wordsThat's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.

   ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 1st of 20 in this recording

   Interesting

3. 31 Jul 2026

   Our readingRenouncing your own cognitive ability because the models are good is premature, because companies still pay an enormous premium for it.

   Their wordsthere still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.

   ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording

   Interesting