AI tools reduce task completion time by an order of magnitude or more in domain-specific workflows.

Simile AI saves clients 85% compared to their existing human-based research spend.

“We go into these boardrooms with people that you're quoting millions of dollars of contracts for like you have to say well here's what you spend on humans and here's what we save you and it's 85%.”

Most Stripe Minions PRs originated from a single engineer who orchestrates 16 agents simultaneously from one screen.

“Most of the PRs came from one guy. He's got Alexander now. He's just got a screen. He's orchestrating 16 agents and he's going a whole lot faster.”

Brian Greene is developing an AI-powered education system to help people understand complex physics, with a launch expected within approximately one year.

“I'm I'm working on a new AI. We're talking a lot about an AI education system where AI will help people understand these ideas better. It should launch sort of in next year or so.”

An Exo agent autonomously rearchitected its own Discord adapter at runtime, scoping context to specific conversations and threads, and reduced costs by 96%.

“It went and rearchitected its own Discord adapter at runtime. Made changes, observed them, tested them to really scope down the context that was included in each of the LM calls as they were built by scoping it to certain conversations and certain threads only rather than pulling messages from across different threads in Discord in a way that drove down the cost to I think like it was like a 96 decrease 96% decrease.”

Kavak's AI CEO agent for a city increased profits by 50% in its first month, despite missing its 100% target.

“It didn't reach it but it was 1.5x like 50% more profits.”

Silico's $1,000/month subscription currently supports 5-10 autonomous experiments per week, with a goal of reaching 10-20 per week within the next one to two months.

“Our goal is to get that to be like 10 to 20 even in the next month or two would I think be a really great place to be.”

AI-driven coding productivity gains are 2-3x, not the commonly cited 5-10x.

“I don't think that it's a 5 to 10x gain. I do think it's a 2 to 3x gain maybe across the board.”

In an RCT by Meter, software developers allowed to use AI were actually slower at completing tasks than those not allowed to use AI.

“Meter came out with an uplift RCT, which I think was the first of its kind, or at least the largest and highest quality, where they had software developers split into two groups. One group was allowed to use AI, the other group was disallowed from using AI. And they studied, you know, how quickly those developers solved issues, like tasks on their to-do list. And it actually turned out that in this case, AI slowed down their performance.”

AI systems are narrowly intelligent and can only do some things for some people, contrary to AI companies' claims that they are general-purpose machines that can do anything for anyone.

“They actually also are quite narrowly intelligent in the sense that even though these companies say that they're everything machines that can do anything for anyone, they actually can only do some things for some people.”