By giving ChatGPT memory of personal context like his wife's job and kids' ages, Weil gets meaningfully more useful, personalized recommendations instead of generic ones.
Weil describes how giving ChatGPT memory of his family's details turns generic suggestions (like hotel picks) into tailored, useful recommendations, and calls personalization a major upcoming focus. ✦ AI generated
Kevin Weil · BG2 Pod · 2025-06-21 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 10:22
“What things are you most excited about that are on the horizon?”
In my case, I've made sure that it knows about my wife and what she does. You know, she's a seed investor. My kids, how old they are, because then when I ask it, hey, we have some free time, what should we go do, or we're going to go on this trip, it doesn't just recommend random hotels. It recommends hotels that are great for my family.
verbatim transcript · starts at 10:22
10:22your preferences are, how you like to interact with it. Um, in my case, I've like made sure that it knows u about my wife and what she does. You know, she's a a seed investor. um my kids, how old they are, because then when I ask it, you know, hey, we have some free time. What should we go do? Or we're going to go on this trip, it doesn't just
10:42recommend random hotels. It recommends hotels that are that are great for my family. And you know, that kind of thing, each one is small, but it adds up, right? And especially if you think about getting proactive and and you know really getting to know you and helping with something that is going to you're going to realize you you need to do 4 hours from now. Personalization is going
11:03to be a big deal. No doubt. One quick question on the uh on the kind of interactivity between different apps. There was some kurfuffle last week. I think Salesforce changed their terms of service in a way that would make it more difficult for other people to to build models. How do you how do you think that's going to play? Do you think people will put up walls or not? You
11:28know, will they be friendly with you, you know, running a widget on top of their app or not? Yeah, it's a good question. Um, I think we're going to kind of feel our way there as a as an industry, as a society. It's one of the reasons that we believe so much in iterative deployment where we release early, release often. Um, cuz AI is going to change just about everything.
11:50Yeah, it's going to change the way the web works. It's going to change the way we interact with services. It's going to, you know, and we don't want to do that unilaterally. We got to, you know, I think the way to do this smoothly is to kind of iterate together on it. Total sense. And so, you know, we figure the more we release and put this stuff out in the world, the the
12:09world, we all kind of get a sense, it's not like we know all the answers, right? We all kind of get a sense of where things are going and we can co-evolve in the right way. I want you to have access to my contacts, my address book, my email, my text, my everything. Yeah. And that that's your data. You should be able to take it to whatever AI you want