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CS Cody Schneider On The Startup Ideas Podcast

“you don't need God in a box to run a Facebook ads account. It's actually a terrible way to run a Facebook ads account. How do I know? We did this, multiple companies, and it's absolutely terrible. The better way is like, what's the top 1% media buyer doing? How do I go and turn that into code with a thinking loop with a live data stream that it's making decisions on top of?”

The Startup Ideas Podcast · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“you don't need God in a box to run a Facebook ads account. It's actually a terrible way to run a Facebook ads account. How do I know? We did this, multiple companies, and it's absolutely terrible. The better way is like, what's the top 1% media buyer doing? How do I go and turn that into code with a thinking loop with a live data stream that it's making decisions on top of?” — Cody Schneider, The Startup Ideas Podcast

Context

Asked whether one agent should score AI-made ads before a human sees them, Schneider argues for narrow agents built around specific jobs rather than one all-purpose agent.

Transcript

The Startup Ideas Podcast Around 44:07 into the episode
Cody Schneider

…perfect on the first shot. You can have it just like be like vision model, go through this frame by frame. You know, we need to basically like have it be aligned, et cetera. That's something that we actually probably need to build into this. But anyway, we've now made those ads just so we created

Greg Isenberg

…like score it, just like how a code rabbit or a greptile does like code review eval says like this code is ready to push to production. Like don't even show me the video unless like it fixes a lot of those little issues. And also go and make sure that it's at least an eight on 10 or a nine on 10.

Cody Schneider

Absolutely. You can 100% do that. I wouldn't even like make this person. Like I think people think about this as like employees, but like I would just think about it as like jobs to be done. Like what was the human doing? And how am I turning that into code, right? Like you don't need God in a box to run a Facebook ads account. It's actually a terrible way to run a Facebook ads account. How do I know? We did this, multiple companies, and it's absolutely terrible. The better way is like, what's the top 1% media buyer doing? How do I go and turn that into code with a thinking loop with a live data stream that it's making decisions on top of? That's actually what an agent, you know, a lot. Autonomous agent ends up being, but to your point, yeah, absolutely. Like you could just add a step to the workflow that I just described. I'm gonna like ship the skill literally right after this. I'm gonna make this update where it basically will look at the motion graphics frame by frame. And it's like, oh, here's these adjustments that we need…

Greg Isenberg

the one step I would add on the creative director piece, like what I would be doing if I was creating this, and I'm going to go and like build this system is have your creative director agent go and ingest like David Ogilvie's books and a hundred of the best, you know, YouTube podcasts over the…

Cody Schneider

multiplayer, this is in graft. Again, I'm going to do this plug. Like, sweet. You want to ship a tool to your whole team? Like, we have a Series A startup that like five people are working on the accounts across marketing and sales. And like, as they discover new workflows and things, they just…

Greg Isenberg

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