GPT-4 Can Save Founders Hours Each Week (Here's How)

Too many AI tools, too little time...

What a week.

The emotional swing from the low of the SVB crisis last weekend and Jason Calacanis’s caps lock, to the optimistic future offered by GPT-4 being released, to Balaji now betting $1 million on hyperinflation happening within 90 days… was a lot to process.

As founders we typically want to focus on the problems (so we can fix them), but for this week’s issue I’m focusing on the good things.

There’s a ton of Twitter threads about GPT-4, but most are full of examples that aren’t super actionable.

So this week’s post is all about how founders can specifically use GPT-4 to save time or money. 👇

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9 Ways Founders Can Leverage GPT-4

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GPT-4 can help both experienced and entry level engineers. A new engineer becomes capable and a 10x engineer becomes 100x:

I don’t think people understand how fast AI is changing the game right now.

The team is already using GPT-4 to build entire components in 10min that otherwise would have taken us days.

We don’t even have experience in the language these components need to be written in! https://t.co/txvlmcDFqR

— Flo Crivello (@Altimor)
Mar 17, 2023

Tools like warp.dev are saving hours or even days of dev time pretty regularly and simultaneously dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for someone who wants to learn engineering.

Today I used GPT-4 to make "Wolverine" - it gives your python scripts regenerative healing abilities!

Run your scripts with it and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong. Even if you have many bugs it'll repeatedly rerun until everything is fixed https://t.co/gN0X7pA2M2

— BioBootloader (@bio_bootloader)
Mar 18, 2023

For non-technical founders, it may now be possible to create simple scripts to automate early processes you’re doing even if you don’t have a technical member of your team.