Over the course of a year, the speaker's startup friends shifted from being urged to use AI to saying that they use it immediately and that their best engineers use it constantly.

“that is interesting to me where it's like the pace at which software engineering has changed is so so fast you know it's like a year ago like i was really like begging my like friends and startups to use ai you know like it was like i remember this very distinctly you know and now those same friends are like yeah of course like what do you mean we use it immediately i'm like no no you don't remember they're like oh yeah our best engineers are using all the time i'm like no you told me that those”

“those engineers would never like use ai this is all within the span of a year you know what i mean and i think that like”