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MORGAN’S MUSINGS ON AI


SAM ALTMAN AND JONY IVE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW MARKET FOR
AI HARDWARE

Today AI exists in a hardware agnostic space. You can run ChatGPT or Claude on
your phone, on your tablet, on your desktop, dealers choice. And while companies
like Apple have released new hardware like the iPhone 16 which is apparently
optimized for AI, this is really more of a marketing gimmick than a reality.
Sure, AI applications will run better on the new iPhone 16, but they will also
run on the iPhone 15 and the Samsung Galaxy.

Back in April I read this article in The Information which got me thinking about
how the hardware world might change over the next few years, and with this
change, open the door for new entrants to the market.

A few days ago, Ives sat down with the New York Times and shared more about what
him and Sam are up to sharing some nuggets like this one that I think shows the
scale of what the duo is preparing to do:

> In February, Mr. Ive found office space for the company. They spent $60
> million on a 32,000-square-foot building called the Little Fox Theater that
> backs up to the LoveFrom courtyard. He has hired about 10 employees, including
> Tang Tan, who oversaw iPhone product development, and Evans Hankey, who
> succeeded Mr. Ive in leading design at Apple.

While the company has ten employees now, they're looking to raise up to $1B so I
think we're likely going to see a massive hiring blitz over the next year after
that capital hits the bank account. 


What I think is so interesting about this move is that it's very likely going to
create an entirely new market. Up until now, the concept of AI (for consumers)
has been completely separated from hardware, any hardware you have, in your
pocket, on your desk, it can run the latest-and-greatest AI. This move will
change the game by truly introducing hardware optimized for and designed around
AI. With Apple's new iPhone or Microsoft's new AI-powered PCs, the hardware game
isn't changing, it's the marketing game that is.


Once there's a company in the dedicated AI hardware space, I think everything
changes and a new market opportunity opens up which means more companies will be
building in the space. Right now you have a flood of new AI startups getting
into YC, but they're all software companies, fast forward 2-3 years from now and
I think you'll see more and more AI hardware startups entering the space.


Of course it's still early, and Altman and Ives need to secure their funding
first, but if anyone can secure a $1B Seed round, it's these two. 
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GREG ISENBERG AND RILEY BROWN PUT TOGETHER ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS ON AI SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT, YOU SHOULD WATCH IT

If you're on Twitter/X, there's a very good chance you know who Greg Isenberg
and Riley Brown are. Just in case you don't, here's the quick TLDR on both. Greg
is a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold quite a few companies, he now
runs Late Checkout, a holding company that builds community-based businesses. I
could probably write a whole post about all the cool stuff Greg has done over
the last decade plus, but I'll leave it at that for now. 

Riley Brown has quickly become one of the top minds in the AI world, not as a
traditional software engineer using AI, but instead as a "software composer" - a
term I'm pretty sure Riley coined himself. Riley is on a mission to become a
Senior Software Composer without writing one line of code and pretty much every
video he makes goes viral.

At the beginning of this month, Greg and Riley sat down for what I honestly
think will be one of the most watched videos on the new AI stack at this moment
in history. In the video (which is just a little over an hour) they build an
app, from start to finish, using V0, Cursor, Claude, and Replit. I'm a big
believer that the tools Greg and Riley use in this video represent an entirely
new tech stack, modernized for the world of AI coding. 

Here's a rundown of what they cover in this video from Greg's You Tube account:

1) Riley breaks down how to create a functional app using AI tools like V0,
Cursor, and Replit - without writing a single line of code! 🛠️ • Key insight:
You can build complex apps in 10-15 hours with practice, even without coding
experience. 


2) The process involves: 
> • Using V0 for front-end design 
> • Cursor for code generation 
> • Replit for deployment Pro tip: Screenshot designs you like and describe them
> to AI - instant working prototype! 

3) Riley's approach: 
> 1. Visualize the app 
> 2. Describe it to AI 
> 3. Troubleshoot errors 
> 4. Repeat until it works "You will your way to a working app. It's
> guaranteed." - Riley 

4) Major hurdle: Connecting AI features to the app. It's tough, but persistence
pays off! • Riley's advice: "Once you get the aha moment... you realize you're
in charge. You don't need to ask anyone." 


5) Cool project built during the pod: SIP idea analyzer! Features: 
> • Extracts ideas from transcripts 
> • Categorizes as "SIP" or "SPIT" 
> • Saves ideas to user profiles 

6) Key learning: Error messages are your friends! 
> • They help pinpoint issues. 
> • Riley's hack: If you're not getting errors, ask AI to "add error logs" to
> your code. 
> • Makes troubleshooting WAY easier! 7) The power of AI coding tools: 
> • Recreate complex apps (like Notion) in hours 
> • Customize existing apps with new features 
> • Rapid prototyping and iteration "To me, it's a no-brainer." - Riley on the
> cost-effectiveness of AI tools vs. hiring designers 

8) Riley's closing thoughts: Composing code with AI is about persistence and
creativity. 
> • "I love the act of learning things and diving deep into rabbit holes." 



Okay, so at this point you're probably ready to watch, so I'll get out of your
way. You can watch it on You Tube here, or just click play below:


  


Thanks to Greg and Riley for putting this together, it is easily one of my
favorite videos I've watched all year.
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Posted 7 days ago


SOMEONE JUST WROTE AN O1 WEB CRAWLER, AND IT'S PRETTY AWESOME

While we still aren't even a week into OpenAI's release of o1, devs around the
world are already pumping out some pretty interesting stuff. As happens every
time someone releases a new model, people release code that you might not use,
but that they built quickly, like building Flappy Bird in o1 in less than five
minutes that I shared in yesterday's post. 

Of course examples like this show how quickly you can code using AI, but they
don't necessarily show you how you can use AI to solve real problems that you,
as a software engineer, might be trying to solve right now. 

So lately I've been on a quest to identify people who are really going deeper
building, and sharing things that we can all use to do things better, faster,
and/or more efficiently. What I saw today on Twitter/X from Eric Ciarla is one
of the best examples I've seen yet of something super useful, built in o1, and
shared with the world.

Like the title of the post says, Eric built a web crawler in o1. He did this
using FireCrawl (firecrawl.dev) a pretty handy tool for turning websites into
LLM-ready data. To use Eric's crawler all you need to do is state an objective
and it will navigate + return the requested data in a JSON schema. Pretty neat
isn't it?

You can check out Eric's o1 crawler by hopping over to this tweet
- https://x.com/ericciarla/status/1835775368407461904. 







Thanks for building and sharing Eric, you rock!

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Posted a week ago


A FIRST LOOK AT OPENAI'S NEWEST MODELS: O1-PREVIEW AND O-1 MINI

I've now had a few days to play around with OpenAI's latest models, o1-preview
and o-1 mini and like most people, I'm pretty blown away by what a major step
forward this is. A couple of weeks ago I thought that Claude 3.5 Sonnet was
quickly becoming the go-to model for software engineers, but I can tell you, o-1
mini has instantly taken its place.

First, for everyone who might still be playing catch up, here's the TLDR in a
few bullet points:

 * four days ago, on September 12th - OpenAI released o1, their latest models
 * everyone thought they would call this GPT-5, but OpenAI said since this is
   such a foundational change, they're starting back at 1
 * the key breakthrough with these models is they are "reasoning models"
   designed to solve hard problems
 * OpenAI split these into two models, o1-preview which is the big kahuna, and
   o1-mini which is a smaller model, 80% cheaper, and aimed at developers

Over the last few days I've played around with both of these models, put o1-mini
to the test writing some Python and Node.js code, and used o1-preview to do some
European travel planning. Both are absolutely far and beyond the best LLMs out
there today and while I feel a bit bad saying this, I haven't used Claude 3.5
Sonnet since they were released. 

Cursor also pretty much immediately announced support for both models so you can
now use them there just as you would Claude 3.5 Sonnet which has been by go-to
for coding until now. 

If you haven't read OpenAI's official Read Me about the new models, don't sit
here listening to me, they do it much better, you can read it all here -
Introducing OpenAI o1-preview.

Lately, one of my favorite things to do when I wake up in the morning is hop on
Twitter/X and see what people are building with AI. Given what a massive update
o1-preview is, people have been building like crazy and releasing some pretty
wild stuff. Below are three that I think are worth checking out:

1. Mckay's o1 AI Playground - https://github.com/mckaywrigley/o1-ai-playground

2. Full weather iPhone app in under ten minutes
- https://x.com/ammaar/status/1834348042637521031

3. Flappy Bird built in 3-4 minutes
- https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1834614755153350809

There's still a lot more to uncover since it hasn't even been a week since
OpenAI released the o1 preview. Right now my goal is to start to cost out some
of the stuff I want to building using o1-mini through the API and make sure the
volume I'm planning on sending it isn't going to cost me a small fortune.
Measure twice, cut once right? Except in 1's and 0's. 

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Posted a week ago


HELLO WORLD

Hello world, this is the start of Linton.ai, my new blog about AI. I have no
course to sell you, no monthly subscription, and no set schedule. Come and go as
you please, I'll be here.

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Posted a week ago

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