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the a16z Podcast 38
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the Neon Show 7 
We Live to Build 6 
Big Technology 6 
Startups For the Rest of Us 5 
In Depth 4 
Lenny's Podcast 4 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
Innovators & Investors 3 
Cheeky Pint 3 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
How I Built This 3 
TBPN 3 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 
American Optimist 1 
David Senra 1 
My First Million 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
All-In 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Java comes up on the a16z Podcast, the MAD Podcast, Top Founders, A Product Market Fit Show, 20VC
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Jonathan Siddharth Write a, ah, a B to B marketplace app that connects, ah, doctors with patients, and write it on for Android, ah, with Kotlin Java, write it for iOS with, ah, Swift, and write it on the web, like with Next.js or something, right?
Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy
- ▶ 22:43 unnamed speaker And it was like a PVP server in Java.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 8:34 Benedict Evans Java wasn't the future.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 39:38 Sachin Aggarwal But when you do that, someone is building the application in Java or Python, ah, then the, ah, DevOps person will come and write the code in Terraform or whatever, and then they'll deploy the application.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:36 Satya Nadella .NET, Java.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 57:50 Amjad Masad I didn't have a laptop at the time, and so every time I go to, like, wanting to learn Python or Java, I would go to the computer lab, download gigabytes of software,
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 33:27 Augusto Marietti We, we first build rate limiting and authentication, 10 times, hundred times, 50 times into the Python framework, the JavaScript framework, the TypeScript framework, the Java framework, whatever, PHP, blah, blah, blah.
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 21:43 Mike Krieger Hey, I just need you to convert this entire repo from this new version of Java to the next, which we get all the time from our enterprise customers, and those are the ones where it's like you don't actually want to intervene that often…
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 1:01:09 Alessio Fanelli And then there's another subset of companies that are like, well, you know, it works a little bit on the front end, but it doesn't work on like my Java service back there, so I'm not going to use it at all.
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 1:02:11 Kiran Darisi To give a comparison at Freshworks, when we released the product, we released in three months because we actually ditched Java.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:58 David Rosenthal He writes it in Java and it's like super buggy and basically doesn't work.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 26:57 David Cramer Even today, I will tell you at the company, we deprioritize things like Java or .NET as a technology stack, because most companies are not starting a new project with Java or .NET or a bunch of these old languages, right? 2 times in the scene
Unlocking Legacy Systems: Modernizing Mainframes via AI with Mechanical Orchard
- ▶ 13:45 Edward Hieatt You've got this old COBOL code, or something like it, and you want to get new code, like Java or something, to run in the cloud. 2 times in the scene
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 1:07:43 Emmanuel Ameisen And you, here we do it for like language languages, but I think you could argue that you'd expect the same thing for like programming languages, where it's like, oh, if you learn what an if statement is in Python, maybe it'd be nice if you…
How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work
- ▶ 28:33 Suzanne El-Moursi Um, I got my first master's in computer science, um, back when, you know, very different languages were being taught, uh, C++ and, and, and Java and, um, Linux and mainframe.
Count On Other People Being Lazier Than You
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 9:24 Matt Bornstein We're talking Java here or what?
- ▶ 22:15 Matt Bornstein You know, we did file systems and some bits of operating systems and, you know, you learn Java, like Java was state of the art at the time. 2 times in the scene
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 8:28 Shyam Sankar I mean, in those days, this was a server with two gigs of RAM, uh, trying to run a four gig Java heap,
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 43:02 Aaron Levie This is, you know, somewhat an illusion, you know, to Java and other, other kind of technologies.
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 5:23 Benedict Evans Will using LLMs to convert, to help you convert COBOL into Java, be a good company? 2 times in the scene
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 9:10 unnamed speaker And then like you switch over to JetBrains and you have the Java support, but then like 2 times in the scene
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 27:03 Matt Biilmann But the interesting thing is that the layer below of like Ruby and Rails developers and Java developers and .NET developers.
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 37:07 Matt Biilmann To be a developer, you were like a Ruby and Rails or Java developer or something like that, right?
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 10:36 Bret Taylor Closure compilers built on Java and super slow and stuff like that.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 14:34 Amjad Masad Because Java was this, like, heavy, you know, brutal thing.
How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 58:11 Yaz El-Baba It's once you take one application and move it from an on-prem mainframe, push it to the cloud with the technology platform that they've built for code writing from COBOL to Java to equivalence testing and a lot of other things they built…