Hunter Bown (
@goodhunt) is the creator of CodeWhale (
github.com/codewhale-hq/Code…) & a law student.
Hunter spent seven years as a high school band director, got an MBA after being nerd-sniped by GPT-3, went to law school, and built an open-source terminal agent that took him to China. We talk about antitrust and AT&T, who should control frontier AI, public defense, Hegelion, open source as strategy, and the patent system.
00:00 Intro
02:03 Welcome, Hunter
02:24 From band director to law school
06:33 First contact with GPT
10:17 Bell Labs, the transistor and the AT&T breakup
14:04 Who should control frontier AI?
16:07 “I wish I could give them Claude”
21:52 Hegelion: thesis, antithesis, synthesis
24:45 Bad actors vs. surveillance states
27:09 The student who built a gun detector
32:28 Building CodeWhale
35:14 The tweet that went viral in China
40:03 China: bots, culture shock, one-person companies
47:28 Open source as strategy
50:38 Patents and the disclosure system
58:14 Going to China as an American
1:01:32 Nemotron and synthetic data
1:03:50 Wrapping up: contribute to CodeWhale