He Spent His Life Savings on AI API Calls

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Parth Patil joins Village Global to talk about building Reid Hoffman's AI digital twin, funding early GPT-4 experiments, and working at the frontier of applied AI.

Highlights

• 0:00 Teaser
• 0:45 What Reid Hoffman's AI work actually looks like
• 1:24 How Reid AI went from custom GPT to real-time digital twin
• 3:00 Data scientist at Clubhouse to going all-in on language models
• 4:30 The GPT-4 moment that ended his analytics career
• 5:19 Cashing out his 401k and spending four months on API calls
• 7:33 Why data analysts make better vibe coders than engineers
• 12:25 AutoGPT, BabyAGI, and the first agent wave
• 15:52 GitHub Copilot, Open Interpreter, and the road to Claude Code
• 17:56 Why he stopped using Cursor
• 21:07 Claude Code vs. Codex vs. Gemini
• 24:30 The UI is melting
• 26:09 TMUX, terminal multiplexing, and agents multiplexing themselves
• 29:05 How to coordinate a fleet of coding agents
• 32:27 What a 14-hour AI workday looks like
• 41:48 Escaping death loops and keeping context clean
• 46:34 Context engineering vs. prompt engineering
• 50:56 How to make a team AI-native
• 54:19 What's coming in coding agents over the next year
• 57:26 Five years out: should Workday and Salesforce be worried?
• 1:02:32 Non-consensus take: AI is a power-user technology
• 1:04:28 Who Parth wants to meet

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