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.

Connect with Ian * Hypar * Hypar Elements * Hypar on Discord

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

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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