{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"State of Play","title":"Weber Wong: One Person Should Have the Creative Power of Pixar.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2870,"description":"Weber Wong was supposed to be a venture capitalist. Then he realized he wouldn't back himself, so he quit, moved to New York, and got a job at a coffee shop.Now he's building Flora, one of the most uniquely-positioned AI tools for creative teams.We talked about why node-based tools have such a bad reputation (and how Flora's fixing it), what \"anti-slop\" actually means when you're building AI creative tools, and the moment Pentagram reached out and he realized he'd accidentally built something useful.Get the UX Tools Newsletter (written by me)Join 100,000+ designers for weekly insights on creative software and the people shaping it: https://uxtools.coCHAPTERS:00:00 - \"They've been cooking\"02:11 - From VC to coffee shop to Flora05:37 - The pain cave vs. Plato's cave08:38 - Poetry as the entry point11:34 - First time using an LLM13:26 - \"The world's most powerful creative operating system\"16:21 - Commerce vs. art — does it have to be at odds?19:12 - A Berkeley professor and Cat's Cradle20:25 - Fine-tuning GPT-2 on his own poetry25:42 - Why node-based?28:50 - The iceberg: low barrier, high ceiling32:56 - What \"anti-slop\" actually means40:48 - When Pentagram reached out44:51 - Advice for the next generation of creativesLINKS:Flora: https://flora.aiWeber Wong: https://x.com/weberwongwongFOLLOW ME:X / Twitter: https://x.com/designertomInstagram: https://instagram.com/itsdesignertomLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tommygeoco","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Q4goNjMCyLVJblsVd-hc65Y9xpTGIkbjq5L00Huluhg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTM4/NTdjYjhlYmI5NzU0/YjRlNDNkMjFiNDgy/NTRhNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}