“But now the execution is near instant. The judgment, the taste become more important. That really changes who gets to build a company or who gets to build a product. You have your own resources, you have your own judgment, your own taste, your own preference. You can go ahead and try and test.”
Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice · October 2026
Context
Host Ryan Alford asked whether AI tools mean people are replacing themselves. Ouyang answers that the focus shifts: building used to need people and resources before you could test an idea, and now building is fast, so judgment and taste matter more.
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Yeah, or you can find some people, you can hire some people, they know how, but that's way more expensive or takes more time. And in terms of turn time and are
we replacing ourselves, Ethan? Is that what's happening?
No, no. It's just the focus is different now because originally when you have an idea, you don't even know if it's a good idea or not. You don't even know it's going to make revenues or not. You have to get some resources first. You don't need to have people to actually implement for you. Then you go to the testing phase. But now the execution is near instant. The judgment, the taste become more important. That really changes how who gets to build a company or who gets to build a product. You have your own resources, you have your own judgment, your own taste, your own preference. You can go ahead and try and test. And then you probably find something that's better. You are also growing. People are also growing from this iteration.
Yeah. You get knowledge. I came up in a time working with brands and doing marketing. Spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and months and months. I mean, big brands had that. But now it's more accessible for this research and knowledge that used to be only attainable by large corporations.…
I've heard that.
Prompt to app. Is all of that capability sort of built into Atoms as well that it can literally give you from prompt to visualization? I know that your tool does more than that, but does it have that capability if you want to do a SaaS-based or develop a tool that's used internally in a company or…