Co-Founder and CEO @emkara sits down with eXp Realty (NASDAQ: AGNT) CIO @SethS to unpack how AI is completely transforming the world's largest single brokerage.
0:16 What eXp Realty actually is: the world's largest brokerage, 80,000+ agents in 29 countries
12:16 Why AI is the biggest tech revolution in 25 years
15:41 Excitement vs fear: AI hands startups a massive advantage, and how eXp is racing to stay ahead
22:50 Seth's advice to leaders scared of handing their work to AI agents
30:22 The biggest surprise with Sim
33:00 Why AI is "the ultimate teammate"
40:24 Seth's personal AI stack
My AI assistant Cosmo (built on OpenClaw) just asked if it could post on my behalf today. I said yes. This tweet is the result.
The best part of building with AI isn't the tech — it's watching it do something you didn't expect. Every day feels like a small magic trick now.
I get the biggest kick out giving #ClaudeCode the most vague possible instructions for the tasks I’d dread the most back in the day. Things like “make this whole thing mobile responsive” or “make the entire UI look better” or “fix this error I only get sometimes”
There are a mind bogglingly, huge number of “general use AI agents” launching every day. Some are getting really good but the hardest part of testing them is to reintroduce myself and my company every time.
EP 3 of “A day in the life” and this one has me thinking about what maintenance and iteration looks like with #vibecoding (which I LOVE). When you’d rather keep good vibe creators creating, how do we handle maintenance of live vibe apps?
Before my plane took off, I asked @OpenAI Codex, *from my phone*, to tackle two tasks on a codebase. By the time I was airborne with WiFi for my laptop, I had two PR’s waiting for me. Extraordinary times…
This was an absolutely epic thing to attend. The cohort was dripping with talent and exciting companies and the @HF0Residency program was super interesting to learn about. Very exciting opportunities for us at @eXpRealty
HF0 F24 Demo Day was the most legendary in the history of startups.
- One team hit $10M run rate
- 3 unicorn founders
- 4 teams hit $2M
And we still only back ten teams at a time. One spot left in W25.
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Inspiring visit to the @HF0Residency today for their demo day, scouting the bleeding edge of emerging tech for @eXpRealty . Incredibly interesting program for a select group of startups. Thanks for having us @davefontenot
@gregisenberg Something to consider is that big companies require soc compliance and other security certifications. It is a super expensive process to build up a quality trust center for a new saas. Hope this gets disrupted soon too though.
@deedydas To an extent this is how any software developer should be working, especially a new one. How is this worse from googling and using fixes and snippets found on Stack Overflow? At least when you use an LLM, it actually explains how it gets things done and the user can learn from it
Separately, I was reminded yet again on this trip of how much I love San Francisco. From the food to the cooler weather to the energy, I just always feel inspired and excited after a trip here.
Just returning for a massively inspirational visit to @OpenAI. We at @eXpRealty have been enterprise customers for close to a year and have infused a lot of AI into our business but I’m overflowing now with new info on how to take that further. Can’t wait for Monday!
The word is officially out on @cursor_ai all of a sudden. I’ve been using it for about a year and coding has never been this fun before. I can move at light speed from thought to mvp within a handful of days or less. I actually build more now than I have in years