Mustafa Suleyman advises entrepreneurs that advances in AI tools—specifically the new GitHub Copilot with natural-language prompting—have drastically lowered the barrier to coding, enabling rapid experimentation. He predicts intensified competition across companies of all sizes, leading to many new consumer products and experiences and overall positive economic outcomes for creators and investors.
What advice would you have to somebody that's trying to build a company right now? I was just playing with this new version of GitHub Copilot now that has this unbelievable prompting ability where in natural language, you just say what you want, what kind of app or what kind of game, what kind of program you want, and then obviously it produces the code. You can then read all the code and then ask for specific chunks of it to change. So in the process, you're actually learning about how code is written. So the barrier to entry has never been lower, which means expanding experimentation by everybody is about to completely explode. What that means is that it's going to be a very competitive time. The big companies, medium companies, small companies, everybody, which I think is an amazing thing for the consumer, because we're going to get a lot of magical products and experiences. I think what we've seen over and over with these things is that people figure out ways of creating tremendous value, and that value always gets paid out, and people make big returns and have great outcomes. So I think it's a really positive story.
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