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Antisocial.
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We're joined by an extra special guest, Kendall Wye, co-founder of Bitment.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Bitcoin for Financial Services podcast, the media
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company combining financial services and Bitcoin.
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And today we've got a great guest on.
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We've got Kendall Y, my co-founder in Bitment, the infamous.
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Can I maybe meet him one day?
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This just happened on a conversation on a call yesterday.
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And Wyatt, you're on as well.
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Good morning.
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We're doing an early Friday morning pod.
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And I've got my Bitment mug for the occasion.
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Good morning, gentlemen.
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Good morning. Pleasure to have you, Kendall. It's been a pleasure to get to know you some,
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but I too had to wait a year between knowing of Kendall prior to meeting Kendall. So it's
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a long line. You better get in while you can because there's no shortcuts.
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I'm like the wizard behind the curtain. Jordan's role in my life is to protect me from this
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that is true that is true we had we had to call an audible um you know guests always like people
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get busy things fall through and so called kindle yesterday and said let's do let's rip a podcast
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we haven't done in forever i mean kindle go maybe do that background first did we do a podcast
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together. Could we do a podcast together again? What was that all about? We did do a podcast. So
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Jordan and I met about five years ago, 2021. We had a mutual friend who connected us because
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he knew that we were both of the same, cut from the same cloth, basically Bitcoiners,
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entrepreneurs, that type of stuff. And Jordan bugged me for a couple of years. He's like,
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we got to do something we got to do something i'm like i don't know man keep in mind i'm a
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crazy amount of money and i'm like i think i'm all right uh but then i do remember we were in
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naples actually jordan we went to i forget what we were doing during the day we did some sort of
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outing thing during the day and then we had dinner at a bar and then you're like all right kendall
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Here's my idea, a podcast.
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So then we recorded, I don't remember how long it went.
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So you took your CIA your CIA job and you like look I can speak publicly about global markets anymore Yeah Yeah The media space you know I don know
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So we got you on.
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So, okay, Kendall, give us your quick summary, your background, where you've been at, worked at, and what you're up to now.
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Okay, so I'm the computer guy.
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I'm the bits and bytes guys.
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I was an OG YouTuber.
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giant Kentucky fried chicken and, um, software developer there for four or five years.
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Are you allowed to talk about the companies
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that you worked with?
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Like, obviously, you're a block.
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That's fine to talk about.
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And then you got to work with Nick Carter
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a little bit at Coinmetrics, right?
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So my first fintech or my first crypto company
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which was a data analytics, crypto data analytics company based out of Boston.
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So interesting business model, honestly, you just run, you know,
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crypto nodes and you collect all the data and you sell it to Wall Street firms
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and all these, all these institutions. It's a great business model, honestly.
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And that was cool. I mean, I did that for 18 months.
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That's Nick Carter's company.
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That company actually recently sold to Talos.
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the thing you have to understand about financial markets is probably the single most important
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mechanical system is the order book so it's the buys the bids and the asks in the order book you've
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side and red on the other side and they're basically matching all of these trades that's
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probably the single most important system in entire financial world um in terms of the actual machine
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We trying to do it on chain It not really the way to do it because it just doesn scale Like you can really scale a dex that way so but you know jack dorsey company obviously very bitcoin focused and so they didn
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like all the coins and i was i was you know of the same of the same mind so really the proper way to
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build a dex is actually off chain but you sort of reconcile things on chain and so really it was just
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a it's just like a messaging protocol and there's this whole open source initiative around decentralized
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centralized identity, which we can go into. You basically marry identity with this concept of a
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messaging protocol and then like reconciling things on chain. That was the idea. And in theory,
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that is actually, I think the proper way to scale like a global financial system for like the matter
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of trading. But it was way before its time, like probably that might be the case in a few decades
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type of thing. So that didn't really work out. And then for the past year or so, I worked at a
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startup like in the stablecoin space. Sort of like a, I mean, it's like a payment slash capital
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markets product. Stablecoins really had their whole time in the sun over the past 18 months,
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which I think we could talk about that if you want. But I think that's kind of not as,
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exciting these days as it once was.
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I did that for a while and now I'm full-time BitMit.
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Here we are.
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Dude, that's awesome. I did not know that. A couple of questions
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Did you get to meet the colonel?
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The KFC experience is really interesting. It's a great company to work for, honestly.
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I mean, they don't pay great because they're not a tech company, but pretty good culture.
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One thing that they make you do is every single employee has to spend two days a year actually working in the restaurants.
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I don't understand why.
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they give me the job of being the the cook like the actual bride cook in the back and i was like
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it is exhausting back there it's like you're sweating like lunch rush comes in it's like
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it's tough it's not easy yeah that's that's awesome uh i think that's such a cool policy
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uh and on a more more serious now you know one thing we haven't talked about in a while jordan
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But I'm always interested how people get into the Bitcoin space because, you know, relatively, it's still a pretty small ecosystem.
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Like, there's not a ton of big companies that employ a lot of people.
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You've worked for a couple of those.
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You know, so you went to CoinMetrics block after, like, cutting your teeth, you know, having the experience at CoinMetrics.
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Were you, like, creating content?
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Were you reaching out to people?
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Yeah, that's a, that's an interesting question actually. Cause so when I left, I left KFC and I did actually kind of go gung ho in the entrepreneur space. So I, um, I, I kind of took like a six month period where I tried to build a startup and it was very unserious, honestly, like it didn't, it didn't work out. And like, um, it was kind of, I always knew it was going to be like a learning experience type of thing.
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um but then so then during that period i was like really interested in like the crypto and
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financial stuff and i've always been this type of guy where this is where i'm at currently this is
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the second time i've done this where i will build a savings account and then i will you know once i
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off of savings type of thing um so i did that back then i'm kind of doing that again right now
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with it meant to some extent um but so the first time when i when i did that i was really into the
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crypto space and the financial space the startup i was trying to build was not in the crypto and
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financial space and um and then i i was like well i kind of need another job again and so then i
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just started you know scoping out the landscape i probably want to work in this space um and the
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coin metrics came up on my radar and i was like really really fascinated with the work of nick
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carter like i think nick carter is maybe one of the most to me the most important individuals in
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the entire crypto you know fintech new new age uh new age financial system interesting we'll circle
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back to that yeah his work is just very highbrow i know he's a little contentious in the bitcoin
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Just introduction.
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I'm really interested in working on the crypto space.
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You know, are you guys hiring type of thing?
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And they got back to me and they like yeah actually we have a position open and the rest is history so cold emails absolutely work establishing real human connections absolutely
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consultation truth um in that vein just because i have to mention now that was a phenomenal tf
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bitcoin financial services summit october 20 22nd denver colorado make real human connections but
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But to Nick Carter, I don't know him.
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I have vaguely followed his work primarily through Twitter.
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You obviously work for him.
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Is Bitcoin Twitter shading my opinion on him?
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Do you guys still follow his work?
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Do you guys keep in touch or anything?
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Is he misunderstood?
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What are some of the important things you think he's done or been working on?
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so i don't want to make it sound like me and nick carter are friends because we're not like
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buddy buddies texting each other all the time that would be cool i'd be down for that nick hit me up
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but um so i mean on one level you always have to understand that everybody's always talking
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their own books and so you just have to be you just have to recognize that and nick carter's job
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is that of a venture capitalist in the crypto space investing in blockchain companies so on
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some level, he's always going to have some bias like that. That's, that's unavoidable. At the same
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time, I think I try to see through the bias and see like, what does the individual actually believe
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in? Like what's the system of, of morals and values, which the individual believes in. And I
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think that Nick Carter's values actually are consistent with my belief of the long-term Bitcoin
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values, which is that, you know, it's like, it's obviously it's ultimately, I think the systems of
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values go, go back towards protecting the individual and from the collective, so to speak.
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But the pathway to get there is, is not as simple as just be a really super hardcore libertarian.
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The pathway is fraught with, uh, with complexities along the way. So I think that Nick Carter,
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anytime you're you elevate i think you get elevated to the level of influence which nick
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carter is at you um you're just in a really difficult position and you don't you can't
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satisfy everybody you just have to try to stay like as authentic as you can um and i think nick
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does a pretty good job at that also by the way so i comment this is why i don't like to do media
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things because i don't want to be in that position but uh but at the end of the day like
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the reason why I really appreciate Nick Carter's work is because I'm just the type of guy that I'm
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nerdy enough to where like, I want to know the sophistication. Like I want to know like the sort
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of obscure, uh, historical accounts of like things that people don't even ever talk about
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everything. And I want to be like, I'm just, I'm just a ruthlessly curious individual.
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And Nick's work almost always captures my, uh, almost always captures my attention like that.
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So I know there's a lot of spats in the, in social media and stuff like that.
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Those are fun and everything.
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But at the end of the day, like I just, I just really appreciate Nick's work.
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Jordan, Jordan, you're on mute.
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Feel free to mute me and unmute me.
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So we can cut that.
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Kendall, given our audience of, you know, financial advisors and like CPAs, I'm curious to hear you kind of talk through really the last, I guess, 18 months since we've been building Bitment.
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Like, maybe tell that story because it's very, you know, we've been building for the CPA space and now we've expanded that beyond to more financial advisors, attorneys.
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And of course, AI has kind of blown up in the past, I don't know, two years, but has really ramped up in the last, I guess, seven months now.
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I kind of think of the year end 25 going into 26 is like a real landmark in terms of AI being much more powerful.
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So maybe give our audience that landscape, especially if there's someone who is out there.
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They're an accountant, they're a financial advisor,
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they're interested in Bitcoin, they're interested in AI,
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but they don't really know how to use AI best.
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They're still getting to know Bitcoin.
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Maybe talk to that person and with the experience you've had
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in the last 18 months of the products you've built.
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Yeah, what's been some fun
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insights that you've come across you think might be relevant for for our audience i was just
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speaking with my friend yesterday about the the concepts of double entry bookkeeping and how
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powerful the concept yeah i know right this is this is the type of things we get into
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and it is the double entry bookkeeping is this like super powerful um it is like it's a it's
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like an OG type of technology. It's just a, it's a standard way of doing things.
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That's, that's Pacioli, right? Jordan. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Pacioli created double entry
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bookkeeping. So, um, I'm obviously not an accountant and I didn't know it. I didn't even
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know what double entry bookkeeping was before we started working on Bitment, you know, 18 months
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or whatever um and it's this it's like a classic trope where uh the software engineer comes in and
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they're like oh yeah this is going to be easy like we just you know copy paste uh quickbooks
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so i have absolutely been humbled by like the level of complexity in the accounting world i i
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can obviously see now how it's like you know you have to go to college and get a you know a degree
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and everything that's a different conversation obviously but my point is just that it's a it's a
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sophisticated way of it's a sophisticated uh profession so that's been that's been humbling
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for sure i think we've absolutely nailed that for sure um the matter of bitcoin and public blockchains
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is just really interesting for that concept because reconciliation is easy to do it's all out there in
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in the open. A large part of the Bitcoin story, I do still actually believe Jack Dorsey's framing
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of the Bitcoin story is still massively undervalued, which is that, look, guys, don't
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overcomplicate this. It's just digital cash. It's just digital money. The fact that you can just
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treat it like digital native money, meaning it exists native to the computing systems, which
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you and I are, or we're all three, you know, operating on right now as we speak, that is
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just crazy in and of itself that we can, it exists solely in that realm.
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And so therefore it's native, you know, it's native to that realm and it can be utilized
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by things like AI.
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So, um, obviously our background is, is in the financial space.
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Um, that's like, you know, your, your background Jordan is in the, uh, CPA space, the tax space.
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I have a background in the crypto fintech space, like we said. So it makes sense that we're focusing on that world.
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To your point with AI, basically what happened about the turn of last year going into 2026 was the AI models became sufficiently powerful that in certain circumstances, they really did start to automate a lot of labor.
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and that that changed things dramatically if you're trying to build a tech company
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um and it's going to take we can go into it if you want but it's going to take five or ten years
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for all those things to actually diffuse but the world of software engineering in particular
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is like ground zero for this and um like my job has been radically changed over the past 12 months
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and i didn't have any say in it right it just happened to me and you gotta you gotta dance
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with the wins that you're given.
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And, you know, so obviously we're focused on the financial industry,
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but at the same time, Bitment is a technology company.
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And so we are playing the technology game.
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And so you have to actually approach it from like,
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well, what's the landscape of current technology companies?
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And I think the landscape over the next five to 10 years
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is of course all about how does ai um how is ai utilized in these systems and the question is
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mostly a question of uh economic productivity like at the end of the day the purpose of these systems
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is to increase leverage for the productive individual and then we can go into like how
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How does that fit in? But I think prior to call it December 2025, a tech company was built one way.
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I think post-December 2025, a tech company is built an entirely different way.
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Yeah, certainly. I think you have some really interesting thoughts in particular about what that means and how you guys are building Bitcoin or Bitmen.
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So I want to circle back to that in a second.
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I totally agree with you on the timeline.
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I think January of this year is the first time I've ever gotten a terminal.
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I'm not a tech bro.
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And I was intimidated at first I was like wow Claude You like well this is like the Matrix There like green things going all around No literally it like I can read anything I don know a single
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prompt line command.
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But one of the things
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that I think is interesting,
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you know, just kind of like set this up into
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the future is like I'm an enjoyer
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of irony. And this
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irony isn't lost on, you know,
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probably 10, 15
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years ago, whatever it was like.
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all the talk you know it's like what are we going to do with steel workers oh just learn to code bro
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and then like the first thing ai actually like first industry probably it disrupts the most to
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your point it's like software engineering right and so i think that's kind of like a crazy
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course of events learn to code okay what just kidding no literally i'm just like okay the first
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job to play so like programmers so uh i was just curious on like your thoughts on that and like
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being in the industry and having to like endure that?
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So, I mean, it's always, these things are always like a double, you know, double-edged because
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it's both, it's both the case that tech jobs for sure are the first to be disrupted.
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And most individuals are attracted to the tech industry because they have
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a predisposition towards constant change.
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It's kind of the part for the course for them.
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That said, you know, it's not easy.
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It's obviously not easy.
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Um, um, you, I, it's, it's just an, it's a brave new world we're going into where you
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have to be very adaptive and you got to be willing to learn new things.
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And that is kind of a large part of, I think, everybody's job going forward is just continuous, continual learning.
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But I can tell you, like, concretely, like, you know, prior to December 2025, I was, you know, I was using AI.
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I was actually using cursor a lot, but I would still I still had a heavy hand in the review process and making, you know, reading every single line of code still.
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after december 2025 i hardly ever write code i hardly ever read code and yet i still manage a
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code base i so in this sense i i quite literally think of my ai agents as employees of mine like i
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i got out basically i got elevated to the position of manager which i never even asked to be to to to
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for that to happen and it's funny that have that people all throughout my career were trying to
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elevate to me position of manager there's a couple times where it happened and i was basically like
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i don't want to do that so but then it's just like forced upon me right but um that that is the
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landscape now you know people have different desires and different preferences and everybody
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has to figure out what what they want to do with life it's still fun for me so i'm having fun in a
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different way um but but it's certainly different and the reason why it it comes it came to the
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software development world first this is my my gambit is that software developers have been
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trying to automate their job for the last 20 30 years so there's already a tremendous amount of
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infrastructure in place there's two things there's infrastructure in place for software
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which software developers were already building just for themselves to automate.
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And then they can just now they can just layer in AI to do the automation.
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The second thing is that so much of software is already universally standardized.
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And so there's strict standardization across the entire software realm.
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Like mostly a vast majority of industrial software, like probably greater than 90% runs on a Linux based system.
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mac os is actually a linux-based operating system windows is the one odd ball out actually windows
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is a is a m dos or something like that ms dos um so you have like an extremely robust set of
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standardization in the software space which is like here's a little bit of alpha for you which
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is that like the reason why cloud code is so powerful in the terminal is because it can
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Whereas if you use Claude in the application, you have an abstraction
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layer between you and the standardization.
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automated like this.
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other industries, other domains have far less standardization.
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they're just gonna take a lot longer to automate.
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And this is where it becomes like,
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what I refer to as human systems.
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Like the reason why for example the financial space is so not standard The reason why you hear all these words these obscure words thrown around left and right by people in the financial space is because they are very human systems
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It's the historical account of the financial system is just humans talking to each other.
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and because humans are talking to each other and all this you know diverse uh set of backgrounds
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it's there's no one way of doing it right and so for that reason it's um it's going to be
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it's still going to diffuse and these things are going to like these systems are going to automate
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all of these white collar jobs it's just that um the there's a there's a long process time
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for the for the infrastructure and the standardization to come into play
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Do you mind to go a little bit deeper into the whole like vibe coding?
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Because I think there's a lot of advisors probably listening to this that are like, yeah, I played around with the tools and it's blown my mind.
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Right. I'm going to do X, Y and Z in my firm.
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and I know I could speak to this a little bit, but I'd love to get your perspective on it,
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on just, and especially in this space where you're dealing with the sensitive documents that
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financial advisors, tax people, attorneys deal with. Can you just talk us through
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why vibe coding is very interesting up until a point, and then it's a complete waste of time
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because ultimately there's data security.
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And if you let some of that data leak out to a bad actor,
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obviously that has huge implications
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for the letters behind people's names.
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So just kind of curious to get your take on that
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as you're talking to an audience of people
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that are probably playing around with these tools,
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feeling like they're more productive,
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but ultimately are probably actually working more now
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because they still have to get their work done
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manually because it's not embedded.
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Like the AI is not embedded into their workflows.
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maybe if you could reference like some specific tools,
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00:33:25,624
you know, when Clawbot came out,
406
00:33:25,844 -->
00:33:27,144
you know, it was like all the rage
407
00:33:27,144 -->
00:33:29,224
and you felt like an idiot if you weren't using one,
408
00:33:29,304 -->
00:33:31,204
but then like a couple of weeks go by
409
00:33:31,204 -->
00:33:33,044
and people's code bases are getting deleted.
410
00:33:33,464 -->
00:33:34,884
Emails are getting sent, you know,
411
00:33:34,884 -->
00:33:36,824
so you like contextualize this with like
412
00:33:36,824 -->
00:33:38,724
maybe some of the specific developments.
413
00:33:40,344 -->
00:33:42,364
Yeah, so there's a lot that can be said here.
414
00:33:42,364 -->
00:33:54,784
A lot of it's pretty abstract and philosophical, but I would say at scale, like five or 10 years from now, the job of a software developer is largely that of basically like a cybersecurity engineer.
415
00:33:54,784 -->
00:34:09,904
And so the industrial value of an individual who says they are a software engineer is largely that to make sure that the systems are secure, cryptographically, you know, secured and the networks are secure and all those things.
416
00:34:10,024 -->
00:34:20,624
And the processes are not going to be auto deleted by rogue AI, which, by the way, that whole open AI thing with hugging face, that's a psyop, 100% psyop.
417
00:34:21,984 -->
00:34:22,784
Oh, interesting.
418
00:34:22,784 -->
00:34:31,804
yeah it's but anyway we don't have to go to that um um but so but the thing is we're not actually
419
00:34:31,804 -->
00:34:35,464
even there yet like you'll hear that that's that's a narrative right now that you'll hear
420
00:34:35,464 -->
00:34:41,164
but it is a narrative which is it like you can't do this on your own because you can't trust that
421
00:34:41,164 -->
00:34:46,964
you're not gonna you know delete your systems or expose client data yes that's true but that's
422
00:34:46,964 -->
00:34:50,784
honestly not the biggest thing right now here's how i describe it
423
00:34:50,784 -->
00:34:59,184
building a software application is like building a skyscraper. So a skyscraper is this enormous
424
00:34:59,184 -->
00:35:05,744
piece of civil engineering with, you know, it's on a grand scale, both literally from our
425
00:35:05,744 -->
00:35:10,944
perspective and that it's very tall, but then also on the detailed level. So you literally have
426
00:35:10,944 -->
00:35:17,984
architectural blueprints down to like individual screws or washers on individual screws in a door.
427
00:35:17,984 -->
00:35:26,424
right so you have this tremendously large project on the on the macro scale and every detail also
428
00:35:26,424 -->
00:35:37,324
has to be in place prior to ai coding um it was as if it was the way you know um skyscrapers have
429
00:35:37,324 -->
00:35:42,404
always been built which is that you have humans walking around you have welders that are welding
430
00:35:42,404 -->
00:35:49,764
to things. They have to use these large cranes to pick up the heavy stuff. After AI coding,
431
00:35:50,044 -->
00:35:55,964
it's as if the law of gravity no longer exists. And so it's as if an individual can,
432
00:35:56,484 -->
00:36:01,604
they themselves just lift up a giant steel I-beam and put it into place themselves.
433
00:36:02,744 -->
00:36:08,044
And you can see how that would obviously speed a lot of things up. Obviously, if I don't have to
434
00:36:08,044 -->
00:36:14,064
rely on a slow moving crane, then I can just literally pick up a giant I-beam and stick
435
00:36:14,064 -->
00:36:15,944
it into place with my own two hands.
436
00:36:16,424 -->
00:36:20,164
It's going to speed things up dramatically, but it's actually not going to speed things
437
00:36:20,164 -->
00:36:33,180
up a ton to be honest because you still have all these little nuts and bolts You still have all these little washers everywhere Everything has to be put into place So there all these details And that what you pay an engineer for
438
00:36:33,620 -->
00:36:38,220
All that level of comprehensive detail to make sure everything is in place.
439
00:36:38,900 -->
00:36:47,000
And it sounds, the job of software is to make things anthropomorphized such that they're
440
00:36:47,000 -->
00:36:48,280
easy to use.
441
00:36:49,160 -->
00:36:51,600
And these software systems are sycophantic.
442
00:36:51,600 -->
00:36:54,280
And so they create the appearance that they're very easy.
443
00:36:54,660 -->
00:36:57,680
But if you actually go through the legwork of building it,
444
00:36:58,080 -->
00:37:02,740
you will realize that it's building a skyscraper and there's like little
445
00:37:02,740 -->
00:37:06,380
washers and nuts and bolts everywhere. And it's not fun. Honestly,
446
00:37:06,460 -->
00:37:07,940
you had to like, it's very laborious.
447
00:37:08,600 -->
00:37:12,160
Even with these systems is very laborious because you got to go through every
448
00:37:12,160 -->
00:37:16,240
little thing. It's like, so anyway, that's the job of a software engineer.
449
00:37:16,240 -->
00:37:21,220
And so the point of like the vibe coding stuff is still fantastic.
450
00:37:21,220 -->
00:37:24,380
because it actually does have a very good use case,
451
00:37:24,380 -->
00:37:27,460
which is that if you're a non-technical person
452
00:37:27,460 -->
00:37:31,300
and you're trying to convey an idea to a technical person,
453
00:37:31,600 -->
00:37:34,500
a great way to do it is to just vibe code the thing.
454
00:37:35,040 -->
00:37:35,720
That will convey,
455
00:37:36,060 -->
00:37:39,100
that acts like a great communication layer to the engineer.
456
00:37:39,600 -->
00:37:41,060
Now the engineer is going to take that
457
00:37:41,060 -->
00:37:43,540
and they're going to totally throw out all the source material,
458
00:37:43,840 -->
00:37:45,080
but they're going to take the inspiration
459
00:37:45,080 -->
00:37:46,780
and they're going to actually build the real thing.
460
00:37:48,080 -->
00:37:49,880
So yeah, that's how I think this works.
461
00:37:51,220 -->
00:38:05,340
Yeah, and that's been our life for the last 18 months. And I think this is ultimately what a lot of service providers are going to have to do over the course of the next five to 10 years.
462
00:38:05,340 -->
00:38:20,660
Because prior to this, everyone in my world and Wyatt's world, we just were forced to use off-the-shelf, mass-marketed software. And it was like, okay, just pick on Asana. Asana is this project tracking tool.
463
00:38:20,660 -->
00:38:22,640
and it could slot in anywhere.
464
00:38:23,140 -->
00:38:25,920
But then you can't really customize it
465
00:38:25,920 -->
00:38:28,140
to exactly your use case.
466
00:38:28,260 -->
00:38:29,600
You can customize it to a degree,
467
00:38:29,780 -->
00:38:31,780
but you can't connect it easily
468
00:38:31,780 -->
00:38:33,560
and you could be a Zapier,
469
00:38:33,660 -->
00:38:35,280
but then you have to manage those connections.
470
00:38:36,080 -->
00:38:38,540
And so you're constantly having to just use
471
00:38:38,540 -->
00:38:41,000
what's given to you as a non-technical person,
472
00:38:41,620 -->
00:38:44,360
click around, set it up to the best of your ability,
473
00:38:44,720 -->
00:38:46,860
probably not using it to the fullest extent
474
00:38:46,860 -->
00:38:48,640
because you don't have time as a practitioner
475
00:38:48,640 -->
00:38:49,640
to really dive deep.
476
00:38:49,640 -->
00:39:06,180
Whereas I think now we're moving into this world where guys like you, Kendall, are working with guys like us actually together to go and say, what is the custom solution that you actually need? And let's go build that.
477
00:39:06,180 -->
00:39:34,280
That's this forward deployed engineer model if you want to go deeper into that. But I'm just curious on your thoughts on the world we're leaving versus the world we're going into specifically for the financial services space and just the prospect of customization and automation so that we become essentially what you are today, where you go to a client, you listen, you understand what they need.
478
00:39:34,280 -->
00:39:36,960
then your agents are doing the work on the back end.
479
00:39:37,120 -->
00:39:40,120
I think that all of us in the financial services
480
00:39:40,120 -->
00:39:42,360
are going to experience that in the next five to 10 years
481
00:39:42,360 -->
00:39:45,000
where we're that human in the loop
482
00:39:45,000 -->
00:39:46,620
or the person they shake hands with
483
00:39:46,620 -->
00:39:49,120
or jump on a call with and talk through things.
484
00:39:49,480 -->
00:39:52,080
But ultimately building a financial plan
485
00:39:52,080 -->
00:39:54,320
or building a tax return or a tax plan
486
00:39:54,320 -->
00:39:56,480
in our scenario for Wyatt and I,
487
00:39:56,660 -->
00:39:58,080
that's actually not going to be work
488
00:39:58,080 -->
00:39:59,920
that we're cognitively doing anymore.
489
00:40:00,040 -->
00:40:01,480
We'll be reviewing that work
490
00:40:01,480 -->
00:40:03,760
and then we'll be communicating with the client.
491
00:40:03,760 -->
00:40:06,500
So just curious to get your thoughts on all of that.
492
00:40:07,200 -->
00:40:07,240
Okay.
493
00:40:07,480 -->
00:40:12,060
So you'll hear this word diffusion, right?
494
00:40:12,100 -->
00:40:19,200
In the AI space, which is that the, in my own explanation of the matter, it's like diffusion
495
00:40:19,200 -->
00:40:25,320
is the concept of AI is super valuable for particular use cases right now, not so much
496
00:40:25,320 -->
00:40:26,200
for other use cases.
497
00:40:26,200 -->
00:40:30,760
And over time, that productivity will diffuse into the broader economy.
498
00:40:30,760 -->
00:40:41,160
So things which are seemingly not exposed to AI, the classic example being a plumber, will at some point be, you know, AI will do the job of a plumber.
499
00:40:41,460 -->
00:40:43,040
That will absolutely happen, by the way.
500
00:40:44,440 -->
00:40:46,480
So that's the concept of diffusion.
501
00:40:47,260 -->
00:40:52,260
Another word for diffusion is decentralization, right?
502
00:40:52,340 -->
00:40:58,440
Because historically, these big tech companies are monopolies and they are monopolies.
503
00:40:58,440 -->
00:41:00,560
They're allowed to be monopolies, basically.
504
00:41:00,760 -->
00:41:06,380
there's a giant centralization of power by the tech companies.
505
00:41:06,380 -->
00:41:10,200
So you have, you know, the Googles, the Microsofts, the Apples.
506
00:41:11,200 -->
00:41:15,120
What AI does, AI properly regulated,
507
00:41:15,300 -->
00:41:17,340
and it does have to be regulated to do this,
508
00:41:18,300 -->
00:41:22,680
actually acts as a decentralization mechanism
509
00:41:22,680 -->
00:41:28,200
to where these giant big tech firms actually lose their monopoly powers
510
00:41:28,200 -->
00:41:30,860
and they lose it through the mechanical process
511
00:41:30,860 -->
00:41:31,800
through which they lose it
512
00:41:31,800 -->
00:41:33,100
is because of guys like me,
513
00:41:33,600 -->
00:41:34,120
which by the way,
514
00:41:34,500 -->
00:41:35,960
Apple, if you want to buy me out for 10 million,
515
00:41:36,140 -->
00:41:36,840
you can do that.
516
00:41:39,180 -->
00:41:39,960
There is a price.
517
00:41:39,997 -->
00:41:42,637
seems stiff but okay
518
00:41:42,637 -->
00:41:48,677
not true we have to take them down kindle
519
00:41:48,677 -->
00:41:54,317
i'm just kidding i'm conveying a point which is that
520
00:41:54,317 -->
00:41:59,277
i am i and like that's that's a huge that's an enormous difference
521
00:41:59,277 -->
00:42:05,437
so um so this is the process of of diffusion decentralization
522
00:42:05,437 -->
00:42:24,937
On the other hand, there is still like these things are always there's always a tension. There's always like a Scylla and Charybdis. I just saw the Odyssey and it was great. And the other side of the coin is that the AI systems work best through this mechanism of standardization.
523
00:42:24,937 -->
00:42:38,517
The matter of standardization is on some philosophical level, a type of centralization, because you're creating a single process, a single protocol for every single use case.
524
00:42:38,917 -->
00:42:53,297
So you have both these, you have these dynamics, you know, butting up against each other where it's like you have this diffusion process, which will actually decentralize technology against the standardization process, which will actually centralize technology.
525
00:42:54,937 -->
00:43:05,197
And so in the case of, I'm going to bring this full circle, in the case of the financial services world, it looks something like this, in my opinion.
526
00:43:06,477 -->
00:43:13,197
Right now, a lot of financial operators or operators of a lot of different industries, they rely on these big tech products.
527
00:43:13,717 -->
00:43:17,197
They rely on the Asanas of the world or XYZ.
528
00:43:17,197 -->
00:43:26,217
XYZ. And that big tech company is some company far away, potentially in a political jurisdiction,
529
00:43:26,217 -->
00:43:30,557
which you disagree with. You can never even talk to them. You can't call them up.
530
00:43:31,037 -->
00:43:35,177
They are maybe using AI models, which are censoring your thing. They're not sovereign
531
00:43:35,177 -->
00:43:40,057
or something like that. They're monetizing your data. They're very far away. There's like
532
00:43:40,057 -->
00:43:44,417
basically an abstraction. It's not human. It's like the system you're dealing with the system.
533
00:43:44,417 -->
00:43:51,977
in these human systems such as the financial system government politics things like that
534
00:43:51,977 -->
00:43:57,957
uh that doesn't work you need a real human on the other line you need to you need to be able
535
00:43:57,957 -->
00:44:04,517
to talk to the technology you need to be able to interface with with the real human nature with all
536
00:44:04,517 -->
00:44:11,597
of its warts and all right that's that's the feature not the bug so you you have this process
537
00:44:11,597 -->
00:44:17,357
of diffusion against this process of standardization and then in the in the in the case i think how that
538
00:44:17,357 -->
00:44:24,717
translates to places like the financial world is that you do get more proprietary what i call boutique
539
00:44:24,717 -->
00:44:29,977
software experiences which is what you're referring to jordan when you say like we can build sort of
540
00:44:29,977 -->
00:44:37,977
custom applications for people you get this you get this um this process where because a guy like
541
00:44:37,977 -->
00:44:43,137
me is able to build, you know, really powerful things. Now I can come do it for relatively cheap
542
00:44:43,137 -->
00:44:50,237
relative to what it used to be. And I can build, um, a financial firm, a piece of custom software,
543
00:44:50,237 -->
00:44:58,237
which is super valuable to their exact use case and it's boutique. It feels like their own and
544
00:44:58,237 -->
00:45:05,117
they can call me and they can talk to me. Um, and that, that is, I think that's the dominant force.
545
00:45:05,117 -->
00:45:13,477
insofar as, for example, open source AI is allowed to grow.
546
00:45:13,877 -->
00:45:15,737
That's the regulatory component to this.
547
00:45:15,737 -->
00:45:19,357
If open source AI is actually shut down,
548
00:45:20,217 -->
00:45:23,357
then that dynamic, it's no longer the dominant force.
549
00:45:23,437 -->
00:45:27,177
The dominant force is still the centralization of the big tech companies.
550
00:45:28,057 -->
00:45:30,137
So, yeah, that's how it works, I think.
551
00:45:31,657 -->
00:45:32,537
Yeah, I mean, that was awesome.
552
00:45:32,537 -->
00:45:36,417
There's like three different questions I have of that.
553
00:45:36,657 -->
00:45:39,937
I'll lay them out for you and then you can pick which one you want to dive into.
554
00:45:40,097 -->
00:45:45,477
Because one of the things I'll attribute to you guys, I think is like really smart.
555
00:45:45,677 -->
00:45:55,237
And if you frame this in like the context of BitMent and your guys' development, you know, there's this vertical versus horizontal and operating system level, you know, AI integration.
556
00:45:55,837 -->
00:45:56,657
That's one.
557
00:45:56,657 -->
00:45:58,897
number two would be then
558
00:45:58,897 -->
00:46:01,037
so that customization
559
00:46:01,037 -->
00:46:03,077
is that
560
00:46:03,077 -->
00:46:04,797
like vibe coded?
561
00:46:04,937 -->
00:46:17,674
Am I vibe coding that Am I empowered as a practitioner to build this customized tool for a client or something Or do I actually need an engineer to your previous point like identifying the bolts
562
00:46:17,674 -->
00:46:21,654
and washers or is like the vibe coding good enough for the customization?
563
00:46:21,654 -->
00:46:27,194
And then the third would just be like words of wisdom to practitioners like Jordan and
564
00:46:27,194 -->
00:46:30,534
I, because I don't disagree with you, Jordan, like, you know, five, 10 years, like I totally
565
00:46:30,534 -->
00:46:34,354
see like the agents doing the work and like we're reviewing.
566
00:46:34,354 -->
00:46:44,694
But then to your point, Kendall, will a software development experience, you know, this, this change first and you yourself like are not reviewing like the code anymore.
567
00:46:44,694 -->
00:46:47,654
Like what's, what's actually like that balance.
568
00:46:49,734 -->
00:46:50,174
Yeah.
569
00:46:50,314 -->
00:46:50,554
Okay.
570
00:46:50,674 -->
00:46:51,114
So.
571
00:46:51,754 -->
00:46:53,734
And you can, you can, you can pick any of those.
572
00:46:53,974 -->
00:46:55,614
I want to flow into the conversation.
573
00:46:55,774 -->
00:46:57,514
Just that one little snippet you had there.
574
00:46:57,594 -->
00:46:59,654
I was like, okay, now I got three questions.
575
00:47:00,134 -->
00:47:02,914
Oh, I know these things are, these things are very complex.
576
00:47:02,914 -->
00:47:08,834
The thing is, is like solving actual industrial value is actually really difficult.
577
00:47:09,314 -->
00:47:10,434
It sounds easy.
578
00:47:10,674 -->
00:47:20,154
And sometimes you can get lucky if you find like a specific narrow vertical, like a specific use case where it's like all we need is like a little program.
579
00:47:20,274 -->
00:47:21,134
We need a little script.
580
00:47:21,394 -->
00:47:24,414
And suddenly my day is like 50% easier.
581
00:47:24,654 -->
00:47:26,014
You can get lucky like that.
582
00:47:26,114 -->
00:47:31,154
In my experience, a lot of that actually does not exist.
583
00:47:31,154 -->
00:47:35,894
And instead, it's like a lot of these.
584
00:47:37,594 -->
00:47:47,214
So on some level, the artificial intelligence is like a type of bureaucracy.
585
00:47:48,154 -->
00:47:53,554
And so bureaucracy is sort of the antipathy to growth.
586
00:47:53,634 -->
00:47:59,174
If you want to actually grow, you need to limit bureaucracy on some level.
587
00:47:59,174 -->
00:48:08,514
and so ai is good at you know creating bureaucracy and so it's easy to like vibe code something
588
00:48:08,514 -->
00:48:13,714
the problem is and it may solve a problem right away the problem is how does it fit into the
589
00:48:13,714 -->
00:48:20,514
broader whole how does it fit into the comprehensive conceptual uh of your of your industrial use case
590
00:48:20,514 -->
00:48:27,434
and on the whole although it may be great in one particular instance on the whole more likely than
591
00:48:27,434 -->
00:48:34,234
not, it probably actually will slow you down. And this is the matter of bureaucracy, right? It's
592
00:48:34,234 -->
00:48:39,654
like, this sounds like a good idea. We just need a committee. We just need a committee to figure it
593
00:48:39,654 -->
00:48:46,534
out. And boom, that's the solution, right? If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
594
00:48:48,634 -->
00:48:56,794
But in reality, you have to think about the broader whole. So this is where I think the tech
595
00:48:56,794 -->
00:49:03,094
company, like what it takes to build tech company starting December 2020, 2025 changed.
596
00:49:03,674 -->
00:49:10,874
There was this longstanding orthodoxy in Silicon Valley startup land where you just find a specific
597
00:49:10,874 -->
00:49:16,774
niche, you find a specific niche and you go after it and you solve one particular problem.
598
00:49:17,274 -->
00:49:24,994
That makes sense in a world of optimization where you're optimizing the economy under the constraint
599
00:49:24,994 -->
00:49:27,594
that software engineering is expensive and difficult.
600
00:49:28,394 -->
00:49:30,434
If that constraint goes away,
601
00:49:30,714 -->
00:49:32,894
then that orthodoxy no longer makes sense.
602
00:49:33,014 -->
00:49:34,114
And that constraint went away
603
00:49:34,114 -->
00:49:36,734
through these AI coding tools.
604
00:49:38,074 -->
00:49:40,034
So in that world,
605
00:49:40,154 -->
00:49:41,694
I think what you have to do is,
606
00:49:42,534 -->
00:49:45,354
like our strategic gambit at Bitment
607
00:49:45,354 -->
00:49:47,194
is that you have to,
608
00:49:47,354 -->
00:49:50,174
if you want to actually automate industrial use cases,
609
00:49:50,174 -->
00:49:53,454
like if you want to get to a world
610
00:49:53,454 -->
00:49:58,214
where you as a financial provider are not doing any of the cognitive labor behind the scenes,
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you're just speaking with clients, you're just acting as this intermediary between
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clients on one side and your agents on the other. If you want to get to that world,
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this goes back to the matter of the infrastructure and standardization that I was getting to earlier,
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you have to actually build the broad horizontal operating system to enable that as the
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comprehensive hole. Like if you just try and build a single vertical of automating your bookkeeping,
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yes, you can do that. My argument would be net net. It probably actually negatively impacts the
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whole So if you if you do want to if you if you do want to actually solve these use cases you have you have to solve it at the operating system level If you a financial professional working with Bitcoin you know the pain of messy CSVs broken cost basis and accounting tools that were never built for this asset
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Okay, so Wyatt always does this because I'm going to have to jump in like four minutes.
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So I want to make sure I give Wyatt the last word
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and not try to end it too quickly.
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Thanks.
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Thank you.
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It's nice to see some development on your part of the evolution of our...
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I'm learning.
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By the way, it's also like 5.30 for Wyatt right now in the morning.
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So it's like very early.
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Well, and I would argue I've asked the best questions too.
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You have asked the best questions.
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I talk to Kendall so much.
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So I'm like, I don't know what to ask him anymore.
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Right.
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No, well, I just think that that's like so fascinating about the like vertical and horizontal, you know, aspect of how you laid that out.
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And I think that's like some some pretty profound wisdom.
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And then like, I've just like felt this anecdotally.
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It's like, wow, I feel so empowered by AI.
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I spent some time building a little internal app that I've used a couple times,
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but I really felt like I needed it this one time,
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and this was going to save me so much future headaches or whatever,
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and it just hasn't really amounted to that.
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So I've been onboarding to Bitmap+.
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I'm just blown away by what you guys have built
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And just like having like that physical, you know, visual, like across different, you know, applications that I've used, you know, in the past integrated into like an AI native operating system.
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It's just like, holy smokes, this is crazy.
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I guess my final question building on that, it does leave me confused though, because I'm like empowered by vibe coding, clearly not capable or have the time or willingness to build.
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like an operating system. So now I kind of feel like I'm in no man's land a little bit. So I need
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like, should I vibe coach? Should I go on the operating system? Like, you know, what actually
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is it? So it's both, it's like both, right? It's like you vibe code as a mechanism to provide
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yourself the knowledge of like, what do I actually need solved? It helps you form up
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your product design, your product experience, like not non-technical people live in the real world
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and they actually deal with like real humans and they speak with real, real humans.
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And, and that's, that's a messy process.
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Software is just an encoding.
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It's just a represent, it's a representation or representation of reality.
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So there's a, there is a literal process there of going from reality to, from a, from a presentation
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to a representation.
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So the process of vibe coding is actually that process of building muscles internally
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for a non-technical person to go into that world.
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But then, yeah, I mean, actually providing industrial use case, it's still a difficult process.
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I mean, I obviously have a bias.
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I mean, I want people to pay for bitment and buy for bitment.
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There are certainly going to be use cases where you can just vibe code a single application and it works really well for you.
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And that's good.
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But my gambit is that if you – here's the way to think about it, actually.
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like employees employees are you know human labor is not cheap it's like you know you got to pay
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somebody i don't know 100 grand a year to do a job that's not cheap right that's like expensive
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of course relative to like your claude bill uh that's like claude is basically worth zero
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compared to that so claude is effectively free what i would just say is that it's
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It's expensive for good reason.
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Like it cost for good reason because there a lot of things there that are outside of the realm that like you just can it it difficult to articulate So this process of vibe coding and building a product
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I think is an entryway into like that whole skyscraper thing of like realizing
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that, Oh, actually we have, I didn't even realize it,
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but we have a skyscraper that we've already built. We just have to,
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we just need to encode it in software. So, yeah.
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Yeah. And I mean,
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I would just end it saying that ultimately, I think everyone's going to have to move to
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this world where you have a fractional CTO that you work with.
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And I think that's ultimately what we're building at Bitment now is it's this boutique experience.
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You know, maybe we can assign five to 10 clients per software engineer.
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And so you have the CTO and you might still use Vibe Coding as that communication mechanism
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to say, hey, we were brainstorming internally and we thought, what if we did it this way
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within the OS?
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Or what if we added this new feature set?
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And you vibe code what you think it should look like from a front-end UX standpoint.
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And you might use Cloud Code yourself to do that.
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You hand that off to your outsourced CTO and then give them a week, two weeks, a month,
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whatever the size of that project is.
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and then you come back and it's like you're a kid on Christmas.
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And that's been my experience literally for the last 18 months
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is like I'm a kid on Christmas Day, you know,
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many times when I hop on with Kindle where I said,
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hey, we need to make these fixes to the bookkeeping product
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or hey, what if we added this feature?
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And then give them a week and it's like, all right,
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Kindle presents it to me.
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It's like, holy crap, that's insane.
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I could have never done that.
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And so I think that's the ultimate mixture,
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00:57:06,868
at least in the current state we're in, is you can dream things up as a practitioner,
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00:57:12,808
but you should not be the one that's implementing it because either you're going to expose your data
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00:57:17,128
or you're just going to lose your mind because it doesn't work exactly how you want it to.
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00:57:22,968
So let someone else fine tune it. And instead of paying a software engineer, you know, 250 or more
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00:57:28,408
a year, which is what the going rate generally has been for a long time. Well, now you can get
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00:57:33,788
that person for a lot cheaper. And it's the same way people have outsourced the CFO role
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instead of hiring a full-time person. So man, Kendall, I think we'll have to bring you back on.
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We'll have to just maybe keep you as a friend of the pod because there's a lot to chew through.
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I did too well. I should have held things back.
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All right, man. Well, very cool. Any last thoughts from either of you?
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this is cool this is fun yeah this is great right man really appreciate you coming on that was
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awesome absolutely cool all right thanks y'all for listening and we'll see you next week
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