Jun 29 2023 63 mins 3
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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