What Roman Ugarte thinks about LLMs

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Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI; previously led growth at Cursor, which he joined when it had about 15 people.

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Our readingAs models get smarter, users should no more need second-by-second updates from an AI agent than from a teammate.

Their wordsAnd the reason for that is we think as these models get smarter, the same way that your teammate, you know, you wouldn't ask for second by- second updates of exactly all the buttons they're pressing and websites they're going to, I think it's too much to ask your bots to do that, too.

↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
Our readingProduct scaffolding built because models are not yet smart enough should be deleted as they improve, even when that upsets some users.

Their wordsthese scaffolding product overhang style things that get built in because the models have not yet gotten smart enough to just do it themselves. Those things will get moved away over time and we need to feel comfortable making kind of hard decisions that might upset a small set of users

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