Matt Welsh

Jordan and Erica chat with Fixie.ai co-founder and former Harvard CS professor on the journey from researcher to Google eng leader and then to startup life prior to founding Fixie, a new platform for building LLM-based apps (a Redpoint portfolio company). We also talk about having Mark Zuckerberg in his CS class, ChatGPT Plugins and the AI ecosystem, and what the future might look like for our kids with AGI. You can find Matt on Twitter (@mdwelsh) and learn more about Fixie at https://www.fixie.ai/(1:06) - Matt talks about his early days at Berklee and Harvard(6:45) - Making the jump to the start-up world(8:15) - Matt explains what Fixie does(11:30) - How Matt thinks about use cases for Fixie(14:20) - How work might change with AI's integration(17:04) - The future of LLM's(20:30) - Matt's take on the race to AGI (25:20) - How Matt thinks about the future of the world for his kids and how they might use AI(29:24) - Quick fire round With your co-hosts:@jasoncwarner- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical@ericabrescia- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)@patrickachase- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn@jacobeffron- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

Matt Welsh, a technical leader at Aryn AI and former Harvard professor famous for his connection to Mark Zuckerberg, discusses how AI is transforming programming and data analytics. He highlights the shift towards natural language coding, making programming accessible to non-techies. The conversation delves into the importance of human oversight in AI-generated code and the potential of AI to refine mentorship and ETL processes. Welsh also explores the challenges of working with knowledge graphs and emphasizes the need for robust evaluation tools in AI development.

Matt Welsh, CEO and co-founder of Fixie AI, joins the podcast to discuss their mission of simplifying language models integration. They highlight their unique approach, combining blog posts, demos, and targeting developers. Matt shares their successful $17M seed funding round and emphasizes the importance of product-market fit and revenue generation.