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Chamath argues that the north-star metric for a developer platform is adoption by developers rather than paper gains, deflecting questions about what his Groq stake is now worth with "we're not talking, that's so uncooked" and "you cannot count never count your chickens before they hatch." The concrete data point he offers is that Groq's developer waitlist tripled in a single week to almost 10,000, which he frames as the leading indicator because "as goes the developer, so goes the platform" and a statistical share of those builders will ship important products and consume more APIs.

The panel ties this to a claim that the pool of people writing code is about to expand sharply, citing recent "idea founders" who taught themselves to code and a White House release discouraging C and C++ in favor of memory-safe languages as the source of most memory leaks. Jason is skeptical of the government weighing in; the others note its stated interest in preventing security vulnerabilities. The limitation is that the headline number is a waitlist, not revenue, so the economic pull-through stays an assertion.

The hosts dissect Google's Gemini image controversy, in which prompts for figures like George Washington returned deliberately diversified results, and Sundar Pichai's memo conceding bias. Friedberg reframes investor anger: most Google investors he spoke with are not upset about the "woke" output itself but about what the blunder signals — that Google may not be organized to compete effectively in AI. He sizes the business to make the stakes concrete: YouTube, cloud, and devices/subscriptions each run roughly $10 billion a quarter while search does about $50 billion, and search's margin is so dominant that its ad revenue is "probably a 100% of the true operating profit of the business."

are they in a position to maintain their search monopoly or maintain the chunk of profits that that drive the business under the threat of AI, are they adapting?