Have you changed how you look at software builds or buy decisions now that some things can be spun up with AI? When buying, are you more appreciative of all that goes into those products?

7:04now that some things can be spun up with AI? When buying, are you more appreciative of all that goes into those products. Well, I certainly know I am. One of my much beloved BB Edit apps, those guys have been handcrafting amazing Mac apps for many decades. So as much as AI is incredible and it solves so many different problems with bespoke issues,

7:29I still appreciate handcrafted stuff made by actual human beings. Go ahead, Greg. Yeah, this question came about because I realized that over the past year, my sort of equation of how I look at things has changed about decisions I make. And as probably a lot of people have with AI disrupting everything and saying, oh, you know what? I could probably just vibe code this. And stepping back,

7:59it's like, well, do I really want to? And I've noticed that I, so there's the sort of buy versus versus build approach that has been around forever. But the opportunity for build is huge now. And, you know, as you just said, Alexander, that the build has a lot of strings attached to it. So it's not as simple as you'd expect. But still, I tend to look at commercial software a lot more skeptical.

8:30Like, is this just a container? Do they only exist because of the proprietary format or installed base and they're just riding on that? And if they were starting out now, would they actually get a lot of users? And so I tend to look at longstanding things more skeptically. And anyway, it's just more of a, it's still all up in the air, like a lot of things with AI with me.

9:02And so I think things are more in the middle. I even look at a lot of open source projects. If it's not currently being updated like every month or two, I'm not even interested. Because if it hasn't been updated in over a year, unless it's like a foundation kind of thing that is super small and simple, chances are it's got all sorts of security issues.

9:31choose. And AI could do a number on it, as far as improving it, performance wise or security. So I'm not even interested in anything that hasn't been updated. And so anyway, it's still evolving, I guess. And let's go to Courtney. Yeah, when, you know, I retired before AI came about, but in my my old life, before retirement, I used to have to generate a lot of stuff like this,

10:07without the, without the meat in the corner, you know, which GAC screens, we call them, you know, if you'd have a show, which showed a room full of people sitting at consoles, you know, you had to have something that looked alive and on their screens, and we used to have to create, you know, You'd go into a set, and our department had set up, gee, there's 40 monitors on desks, and we've got to put something on all 40 monitors, and it can't be the same image.

10:32And we would have to generate these GAC screens by the dozens, and we'd have a whole team of artists, graphic artists that were working in Macromedia Director, building things and creating things in Illustrator and Photoshop and After Effects that would do animations and things. and it would take a month or so to create those screens. So I thought, gee, I'll be really clever.

10:57And I wrote a program to create these screens. This was, you know, 15, 20 years ago. And so I created my screen so I could create those GAC screens, you know, because each one of those little panels that you saw here in this scene here are adjustable in size, the content. I could change the, you know, just with a click, I could change the weather scan, what's on there, size of it, the position of it.