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Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI.
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Favorite quotes
- “What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?”
- “I just can’t stand toil.”
- “You don't wanna penalize the customer for using the system more.”
Links
- Revit
- Tekla
- AutoCAD
- PyTorch
- Unity
- Dynamo
- Grasshopper
- Python and C#
- IFC
- OpenAI Codex
- DALL-E
- Stable Diffusion
- GPT
- Runway ML
- Gather
- Visual Studio Code
- GitHub Copilot
- NVIDIA’s Omniverse
- Calendly
- Zebra G-750 retractable gel metal pen
People mentioned
- Andrew Heumann
- Matt Campbell
- Serena Li
- Chuck Driesler
- Eric Wassail
- Eric Bass
- Anthony Hauck
- Brian Ringley
Chapters
- 00:00 · Introduction
- 02:08 · Hypar
- 12:02 · Hypar Elements
- 14:11 · Visual programming
- 16:59 · C Sharp
- 18:24 · Grasshopper on the cloud
- 19:57 · Do I need to code?
- 22:11 · Toil
- 24:03 · Sharing
- 26:00 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination
- 37:16 · Remote work
- 39:27 · Gather
- 40:44 · Monetization
- 48:18 · Advice for young people
- 49:11 · A $100 purchase
- 50:47 · Artificial intelligence
- 53:32 · Sustainability
- 55:37 · Exercise
- 57:33 · Generative AI
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Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview.
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