How to win — and lose — Decoder
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hello and welcome to Decoder , Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by host and very...
Anthropic — What company has the best second artificial intelligence model at the end of June?
A striking development has emerged in artificial intelligence. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hello and welcome to Decoder , Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by host and very occasional guest, Nilay Patel.
Nilay, welcome back to your own show. I hate being the guest. Now, you have said that in the past, but there’s also a version of you that says that is the ideal version of this show, where you just get to not do anything and show up and talk about stuff.
Technical Details
So I feel like you’re of two minds about what the ideal version of Decoder is. Being a permanent guest is a level of success that is hard to attain, where other people just want you to show up because they think you will be interesting. I would love to attain that level of success.
At the same time, being the guest means you also have to be interesting all the time. Being the host, you’re just in control. You’re basically saying, “Can you be interesting over and over again for an hour?
” And then you see what happens. So that is my job today. A few months ago, we did another mailbag episode , which we were thinking of as an annual thing that would happen around the holidays, where we respond to listener questions, feedback, criticism, and suggestions.
Industry Implications
But recently, we thought we should just do this more often because we get a ton of great feedback, and we do really read all of the emails. So we are here again. I thought we would just jump into it.
Nilay, are you ready? View Link So by far, our most popular episode of this year was also our most contentious. It was your interview, Nilay, with Superhuman CEO, Shishir Mehrotra , which focused heavily on Grammarly’s expert review controversy .
We got mounds and mounds of feedback about that episode. Most of it was overwhelmingly positive. There were a lot of interesting emails, comments, and feedback we wanted to highlight here.
This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.
