A Motorcycle for the Mind
Naval
Naval Ravikant
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
If you want to learn, do 0:00
Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13
Training models is the new coding 6:49
Is traditional software engineering dead? 10:13
There is no demand for average 13:07
The hottest new programming language is English 14:12
AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 18:36
No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 22:56
The goal is not to have a job 26:46
AIs are not alive 29:49
AI fails the only true test of intelligence 32:55
Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 36:49
AI meets you exactly where you are 39:37
Always leverage the best intelligence 43:02
If you can't define it, you can't program it 44:37
The solution to AI anxiety is action 49:37
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Nivey. You're listening to the Naval podcast for the first time in recorded history. |
| 0:06.5 | We are not at the same location. I am actually walking around town and Naval might be doing the same, |
| 0:14.1 | so there might be some ambient noise, but we are going to try hard to remove that with AI and some good audio engineering. |
| 0:23.1 | Podcast recording is so stilted because it's like you have to sit down and you schedule something, |
| 0:27.5 | this giant mic pointing in your face, and it's not casual, it makes it just less authentic, |
| 0:31.9 | more practiced, more rehearsed. |
| 0:34.0 | I get that it produces maybe higher quality audio and video, but I feel like it produces |
| 0:40.5 | lower quality conversation. |
| 0:42.6 | And we all know brains run better when they're being locomoted and you're moving around. |
| 0:48.7 | We're just going for walks. |
| 0:49.8 | Absolutely. |
| 0:50.8 | My brain is powered by my legs. |
| 0:52.2 | I pulled out some tweets from Naval on the topic of AI. |
| 0:57.5 | We want to talk a little bit about AI and hopefully talk about it in a more timeless |
| 1:02.1 | manner, but I think some of it's going to be non-timeless content. |
| 1:06.4 | Before we jump into the tweets, do you want to say anything about what you're doing with your time or what |
| 1:12.4 | you're doing at Impossible? Not really. We're working on a very difficult project. That's why it's |
| 1:17.8 | called Impossible with an amazing team. And it's really exciting building something again. It's |
| 1:22.5 | very pure starting over from the bottom. And that's all with day one. I guess I just wasn't satisfied being an |
| 1:29.5 | investor and I certainly don't want to be a philosopher or just a media personality or a commentator |
| 1:34.0 | because I think people would just talk too much and don't do anything. They haven't encountered |
| 1:38.0 | reality. They haven't gotten feedback. The harsh feedback for free markets are from physics |
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