Venture Capitalist Claims Talking to AI Is Like Having World’s Best Therapist

KEY POINTS

•Marc Andreessen said on the a16z Podcast that AI can become the world’s best coach for those who ask smart questions.
•He suggested small business owners, like bakery owners, use AI to critique everything from staffing to marketing to recipes.
•Andreessen emphasized asking meta-prompts asking AI 'What questions should I ask you?' to unlock AI’s full potential.
•Google Brain’s Andrew Ng and EY's Matt Barrington echoed the importance of managing AI context and usage to get quality help.

Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist kingpin of Andreessen Horowitz, dropped AI wisdom bombs on the a16z Podcast this Tuesday, declaring AI the 'world's best coach, mentor, therapist, advisor, board member'—basically your overqualified life coach who won't ghost you. He praised AI as 'the most democratic tech ever,' ready to roast your bakery’s cinnamon roll recipe, slash costs, and turn your staffing schedule into a lean, mean machine. Andreessen's genius move? Prompting AI with meta-questions like 'Teach me how to use you best'—because apparently even AI suffers from newbie users. Meanwhile, Google Brain's Andrew Ng confessed to yammering at AI in voice mode while driving, proving multitasking is dead, long live chatting with robots. EY's CTO Matt Barrington keeps neat AI workspaces, because obviously even bots judge your messy drafts.