Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
01:42:10 · Lenny Rachitsky, Marc Andreessen
[01:42:10] S1: Subscribers of my newsletter get a year free of Replit and Wispr Flow, so there we go. What's the most memorable thing your son's built with Replit? [01:42:19] S0: Oh, well so, he's gotten super into Star Trek. And so, so far he's writing, like, Star Trek simulators. So like all the, you know, all the... By The Next Generation, they actually have a- [01:42:29] S1: Next Generation, okay, I was going to ask which- [01:42:30] S0: Well actually, we like them all. We watched the new Starfleet Academy last night- [01:42:33] S1: Hm. [01:42:33] S0: ... which actually is quite good. But we watched the original, we watched them all. But it was in Next Generation where they actually developed an actual design language for the computers. If you watch the original series, they just had, like, basically knobs with lights. And they didn't really, they just were, like, fucking around on set, and trying to pretend they were doing it. But by Next Generation, they actually had designed, they actually had a UI design language. And so one of the fun things you can do with Vibe coding is you can say, "Give me a Star Trek Next Generation user interface for whatever, this, that," or whatever. And it actually uses the, they called it... I'm just having a nerd-out... They called it LCARS design language. And it'll actually build you like Star Trek Next Generation bridge consoles using that design language, but with your choice of a Star Trek name, for example. And so he's going crazy for that kind of thing.
01:42:33 · Marc Andreessen, Lenny Rachitsky
[01:42:33] S0: ... which actually is quite good. But we watched the original, we watched them all. But it was in Next Generation where they actually developed an actual design language for the computers. If you watch the original series, they just had, like, basically knobs with lights. And they didn't really, they just were, like, fucking around on set, and trying to pretend they were doing it. But by Next Generation, they actually had designed, they actually had a UI design language. And so one of the fun things you can do with Vibe coding is you can say, "Give me a Star Trek Next Generation user interface for whatever, this, that," or whatever. And it actually uses the, they called it... I'm just having a nerd-out... They called it LCARS design language. And it'll actually build you like Star Trek Next Generation bridge consoles using that design language, but with your choice of a Star Trek name, for example. And so he's going crazy for that kind of thing. [01:43:19] S1: That sounds extremely delightful. You guys should open source and release that. Marc, like I said, I could talk to you for hours, well, you've got things to do. Anything you want to leave listeners with before we wrap up? Anything you want to double-down on or just leave listeners with?
01:43:19 · Lenny Rachitsky, Marc Andreessen
[01:43:19] S1: That sounds extremely delightful. You guys should open source and release that. Marc, like I said, I could talk to you for hours, well, you've got things to do. Anything you want to leave listeners with before we wrap up? Anything you want to double-down on or just leave listeners with? [01:43:33] S0: Yeah, so a couple things. So one is, we got super lucky last week, Packy McCormick wrote the best piece ever written about us, actually, which he released. And so it's the best explanation of what we do, and how we think. And so I would definitely recommend that. And then we're putting a lot, we have a great team of folks now, we're putting a lot of effort ourselves into video and content. And so I'd definitely recommend our YouTube channel, which I think has a lot of great stuff and is going to be very exciting in the next year. [01:43:59] S1: Awesome. Well link to that, I think it's just youtube.com/a16z, something like that. And you guys have great stuff. [01:44:04] S0: Okay. [01:44:04] S1: Marc, thank you so much for being here. [01:44:06] S0: Awesome, thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. [01:44:08] S1: Bye everyone. Thank you so much for listening. If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Also, please consider giving us a rating or leaving a review, as that really helps other listeners find the podcast. You can find all past episodes or learn more about the show at lennyspodcast.com. See you in the next episode.