Using AI To Build Production Software | 5 Mental Models and Major Trends

This is a talk titled "Scaling Humans and Code with AI" given by Reilly Sweetland, Founder of FollowUpThen (YC S17), during a breakout session at Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025 in Sunnyvale, CA at the Plug and Play Tech Center.

00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:15 Speaker Background and Experience
01:02 Generative AI and Current Trends
02:05 Mental Models for AI Development
04:36 Concept 1: Maintain Agency
07:54 Concept 2: Generate Knowledge
11:07 Concept 3: Radical Prototyping
11:07 Concept 4: Choosing a Stack
14:07 Concept 5: Curate Context
14:48 Conclusion: Flywheel of Knowledge