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New teaser is out from episode 2 of @FirstSlicePod with @peppybots He's building Lovable for robots.

First Slice 002 is out! For Episode 002, I chatted with Dan Lambert (@peppybots), founder of Peppy. Dan is building “Lovable for robotics.” The idea: tell a robot what you want it to do in plain English, test it in simulation, then eventually deploy that behavior to a physical robot. Dan thinks robotics is hitting an inflection point right now. Robot brains are getting dramatically more powerful. Useful hardware is getting cheaper. He has robots on his desk that cost under $5,000. And AI coding tools are starting to make robotics development accessible to people who aren't robotics engineers. Dan's first experience setting up a robot with existing tooling took him more than 10 hours. Peppy wants to turn that into roughly 10 minutes. But vibe coding a robot is very different from vibe coding a website. If AI hallucinates while building software, the application might break. If AI hallucinates while controlling a physical machine, the robot could break something or hurt someone. We get into that problem, how Peppy is building a safety layer between AI and physical hardware, the shortage of real-world robotics data, NVIDIA's role in the industry, and why robots eventually need to get “punched in the face” by the real world before they become truly useful. Dan also explains why Peppy could eventually look less like a robotics company and more like Android: a common software, developer and application layer that persists even as the robot hardware underneath it changes. This is exactly what I want @FirstSlicePod to be. What's next, before it's obvious. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Why robots, why now? 01:27 Turning 10 hours of robotics setup into 10 minutes 04:18 What's actually preventing general-purpose robots? 06:09 Peppy's oversubscribed ~$1M pre-seed round 09:41 Why useful robots are still a few years away 11:07 Why robots need to get “punched in the face” 11:57 From a plain-English prompt to physical motor movement 15:32 What would robotics look like without NVIDIA? 17:59 How experimenting with robots turned into Peppy 20:41 “Lovable for robotics” and the vibe coding moment 23:18 Peppy's December 2026 public launch 26:38 Should robots be allowed to use knives? 29:49 Do robots actually need to be humanoid? 31:15 The moment Dan became obsessed with robotics 32:49 Talking to a robot and seeing a glimpse of the future