Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:03 Welcome, Hunter
2:24 From band director to law school
6:33 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

Read the recap: Hunter Bown: From Law to 40k+ stars on GitHub & conference invitations

Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBcsUZuDcI