Filip Kozera sees parallels between Excel’s democratization of data analytics and Wordware’s mission to put AI development in the hands of knowledge workers. Drawing inspiration from Excel’s 750 million users (compared to 30 million software developers), Wordware is creating tools that balance the rigid structure of programming with the fuzziness of natural language. Filip explains why effective AI development requires working across multiple abstraction layers—from high-level concepts to detailed implementation—while preserving human creative control. He shares his vision for “word artisans” who will use AI to amplify their creative impact.

Hosted by Sonya Huang, Sequoia Capital

Mentioned in this episode:

Lovable: Generative AI app that builds UIs and web apps

Her: 2013 Spike Jonze film that Filip uses as an example of how voice will not be the best modality to express knowledge work.

Descript: AI video editing app that Filip uses a lot. 

Granola: AI notetaking app Filip uses every day.. 

Gemini 2.0 Pro: Google’s newest long context model that can handle 6000 page pdfs.

Limitless pendant: Wearable device for collecting personal conversational context to drive AI experiences that Filip can’t wait for to ship.

DeepLearning.AI: Andrew Ng’s amazing resource for learning about AI

3Blue1Brown: Grant Sanderson’s incredible channel on YouTube that explains math and AI visually.