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5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Nadia Eghbal · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive

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Eghbal: Source code alone does not create an open source project

“Code by itself does not make an open source project. You have to have all these other types of skill sets, and that's, like, one of the biggest issues that I've seen where people don't really understand the value of a healthy community.”

Nadia Eghbal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:49 a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source

Jan 2, 2019 neutral

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Sinofsky: Code with nested parentheses is more likely to contain bugs

“Something with three sets of parentheses in it, it's likely to have a bug in it just because it has three sets of parentheses in it.”

Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:27 a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?

Feb 26, 2019

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De La Garza: Malware code is more immutable than online identities

“It's very easy to shift identities online, but code is something that's relatively immutable.”

Joel De La Garza Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 30:53 a16z Podcast | The Business of Cybercrime

Oct 23, 2025 neutral

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Masad: Law and healthcare AI lags due to lack of objective verifiers

“Law and healthcare, they're still a little too squishy, a little too soft. It's unlike math or code.”

Amjad Masad Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 26:47 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding

Apr 1, 2026 bullish

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Jennings: Block engineers no longer write code by hand

“I mean, we're like, we're not writing code by hand anymore. That's over. That's done.”

Owen Jennings Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 5:55 How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show

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