A Motorcycle for the Mind

Hey. This is Nivi. You're listening to the Naval podcast. For the first time in recorded history, we are not at the same location. I am actually walking around town, and Naval might be doing the same. So there might be some some ambient noise, but we are going to try hard to remove that with AI and some good audio engineering. Podcast recording is so stilted because it's like you have to sit down, you schedule something, and there's giant mic pointing in your face, and it's not casual. It makes it just less authentic, more practiced, more rehearsed. I get that it produces maybe higher quality audio and video, but I feel like it produces lower quality conversation. And we all know brains run better when they're being locomoted and you're moving around or just going for walks. Absolutely. My brain is powered by my legs. I pulled out some tweets from Naval on the topic of AI. We wanna talk a little bit about AI and hopefully talk about it in a more timeless manner, but I think some of it's going to be non timeless content. Before we jump into the tweets, do you wanna say anything about what you're doing with your time or what you're doing at Impossible? Not really. We're working on a very difficult project. That's why it's called Impossible with an amazing team, and it's really exciting building something again. It's very pure starting over from the bottom, and that's always day one. I guess I just wasn't satisfied being an investor, and I certainly don't wanna be a philosopher or just a media personality or a commentator, because I think people who just talk too much and don't do anything, they haven't encountered reality. They haven't gotten feedback, the harsh feedback from free markets or from physics or nature. And so after a while, it ends up becoming just too much orange hair philosophy. You probably have noticed my recent tweets have been much more practical and pragmatic, although there's still occasional ethereal or generic ones. But it's more grounded in the reality of working every day. And I just like working with a great team to create something that I wanna see exist. So hopefully, we'll create something that will come to fruition and people will say, wow. That's great. I want that also, or maybe not. But it's in the doing that you learn. So I pulled out a tweet from a couple days ago, February 3. Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding. There's been a shift, market pronouncement in the last year and especially in the last few months, most pronounced by Claude Code, which is a specific model that has a coding engine in it, which is so good that I think now you have Vibe coders, which are people who didn't really code much or hadn't coded in a long time, who are using essentially English …