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every year every show Latent Space 65 the a16z Podcast 49 Top Founders 26 20VC 25 Acquired 22 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 14 the MAD Podcast 14 the Startup Ideas Podcast 12 
Lenny's Podcast 10 
Startups For the Rest of Us 8 
In Depth 7 
No Priors 6 
Starter Story 6 
Cheeky Pint 5 
We Live to Build 5 
My First Million 5 
the Neon Show 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
Mixergy 2 
American Optimist 2 
Big Technology 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
TBPN 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where JavaScript comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, Top Founders, 20VC, Acquired
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 57:44 Brian Armstrong Um, it's, it's like a totally complete, just like, you know, C++ or JavaScript, you can write anything in there.
#2306 Polsia: AI Agent + Zero Employees = $10M Run Rate
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 1:04:30 Shawn Wang So you're very tied into JavaScript. 3 times in the scene
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:52 Amjad Masad I mean, even in planes and, you know, those kinds of software that we're talking about, they never adopted JavaScript. 3 times in the scene
How Roblox Turned Game Developers Into $1.3M+ Earners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 13:36 David Baszucki If users have infinite AI on the creator side, it's really interesting right now because we're just starting to see the very early edge of what's the future of coding and coding, you know, is a somewhat, um, mature environment when it…
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 14:39 John Collison And your, just to round out the point, your Java, JavaScript comparison is that, uh, you know, Java was a very popular language, uh, before the, uh, you know, emergence of, uh, uh, web browsers with JavaScript. 3 times in the scene
⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- ▶ 7:47 Samuel Colvin If you run it with node, you can import the JS module and go and run arbitrary JavaScript code to access the host.
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 7:41 Jonas Nelle Instead of typing out the, like a character 5000 times to hit the limit, it opens dev tools, writes JS,
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:21 unnamed speaker This is when everyone was deep in JavaScript. 4 times in the scene
How I Built a $12K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 2:31 unnamed speaker So I went into Stack Overflow and learned JavaScript in one day, and by the end of the night, I hacked out a Photoshop script.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:32 Calvin French-Owen 10% of JavaScript is pretty different than if you're looking across everything.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 44:20 Marc Andreessen And then I still remember when, when scripting, you know, when scripting languages, you know, we developed JavaScript and Nescape and then, you know, Python took off and Perl and these other scripting languages, but scripting languages,… 2 times in the scene
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 45:49 Shawn Wang I mean, there you start to overlap with, uh, other async, like TRPC in, in JavaScript land, or, you know, I, I, I, whatever, go put above stuff that go people have.
We're Forced to Automate or Get Left in the Dust
- ▶ 16:23 Eric Turney That I think is very fixable though with Replid is it outputs all of it in JavaScript, which is fine, um, for a tool like that. 2 times in the scene
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 3:18 Matt Bornstein Now full stack means I know JavaScript and Python.
⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
- ▶ 12:58 Arman Hezarkhani It's more just like TypeScript allows us to have that flexibility to, um, like the flexibility of JavaScript, but the, but the constraints of TypeScript.
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 1:15:34 John Collison I think I'm more in Zach's camp because there's so many tech improvements where, like, remember when everyone was talking about Ajax, like, you know, JavaScript applications, and, like, applications are still, 2 times in the scene
Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A
- ▶ 10:59 Ian Webster But, um, but it can also hook directly into like your Python, your JavaScript, whatever, and we have support for 50 different inference providers.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 2:14 Amjad Masad If it's like a web app, we'll pick JavaScript and Postgres and things like that.
- ▶ 5:10 Amjad Masad and then you go higher level, Python, JavaScript.
- ▶ 6:33 Amjad Masad The absolute irony is I was part of the JavaScript revolution. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:52 Amjad Masad You type in some JavaScript, we, and there's a, there's a button that says eval, you click eval and evaluates, shows you on a, in an alert box. 4 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 0:06 Kevin Rose In the early days when we first had something called asynchronous JavaScript to get a little bit geeky, it was the first time, even though it sounds super archaic, that you could actually click a button, send out for a server response and…
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.
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 25:28 Shawn Wang I thought this was this Python, this is JavaScript, and then there was a whole link in there.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 52:43 Quinn Slack Uh, vTest in JavaScript, that's easy.
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 16:26 Rob Howard Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world.
Using Google Ads, Heygen AI, Perplexity to make you $$$
- ▶ 21:02 Cody Schneider And so what this is going to do is basically write the code, which is just a JavaScript code that you want to fire when the user does the action that you're looking for.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:30 David Rosenthal And so he's playing around with JavaScript and what he can do with JavaScript to make this application, this web application of email better.
- ▶ 13:38 David Rosenthal The history of JavaScript is fascinating.
- ▶ 13:46 David Rosenthal The idea behind JavaScript was to include a programming language as part of web browsers so that people could make dynamic web pages instead of just static HTML documents.
- ▶ 13:57 David Rosenthal The problem was it was kind of this casualty of the browser wars with Microsoft and Internet Explorer and everything that killed Netscape, and so up until this time, kind of, 2001, JavaScript existed, but, like, it wasn't super popular.
- ▶ 14:57 David Rosenthal And so Paul's like, maybe I can use JavaScript to make this better.
- ▶ 14:59 David Rosenthal He's working on it, and he discovers a little known feature of JavaScript called the XML HTTP request, which lets a web page fetch
- ▶ 21:38 David Rosenthal There wasn't a lot of depth of knowledge out there about JavaScript.
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
- ▶ 13:09 Cameron Adams Deep browser tech for like a decade, helping to shape what JavaScript was and HTML and CSS, and pushing the boundaries of that with a super visual product that had a heap of interaction patterns in it, and really asked a lot of what was…
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 52:04 Amjad Masad JavaScript and Python and higher level languages. 2 times in the scene
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 52:04 Alessio Fanelli I had a JavaScript one. 2 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 11:00 Martin Casado And by the way, many things came from that JavaScript, et cetera.
- ▶ 20:18 Martin Casado You know, the, the enterprise didn't know what to think about it and banned it or whatever, and the same company that was, like, building, that built JavaScript, that's building this core technology, is also doing the browser.
Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
- ▶ 17:14 Rob Walling Like you're not going to publish an article about web scraping using Node or JavaScript or whatever that doesn't meet your standard, and that standard is a nine and a half out of 10, right?
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 10:23 Maor Shlomo You still needed to know some JavaScript, something to make them work, to have the interaction right.
- ▶ 19:24 Maor Shlomo Tried using a package called cryptography, which is like a Node.js, like a JavaScript package.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 50:55 Ben Holmes I think that's the big thing is it's really good at languages outside of just JavaScript and React, which seems to be the zeitgeist for all these other tools. 2 times in the scene
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 55:30 David Cramer Oh, it's like the people writing new UIs in JavaScript.
How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 3:45 Leandro Zubrezki I chose JavaScript because in JavaScript, you can build mobile apps, web apps,
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 26:22 Shawn Wang Uh, so as the resident JavaScript guy, why not, why not JavaScript? 5 times in the scene
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 1:45:00 unnamed speaker You start from a whiteboard and then it translates into pseudocode on JavaScript.
I Make $250K/Month From 20 Apps
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 18:56 Alexander Embiricos And I was like, you're still using JavaScript? 2 times in the scene
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 37:49 Boris Cherny For other teams, type coverage is very important, especially if you're working in, you know, a very strictly type language and, you know, for example, avoiding like NEs and JavaScript and Python.
- ▶ 1:10:59 Boris Cherny Um, and obviously it's all JavaScript.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month
- ▶ 12:21 Lane Wagoner We use Kubernetes, Docker, Vue, Nuxt, JavaScript, TypeScript.
Should you use Google’s NEW Firebase Studio for vibe coding (Full Demo)
- ▶ 3:11 unnamed speaker You don't really need to know anything about different JavaScript frameworks, the differences, which one you may or may not. 4 times in the scene
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:07 Tom Blomfield It might be from your server log files or the JavaScript console in the browser. 2 times in the scene
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 25:25 Alessio Fanelli Uh, script, and then you're gonna expose that through JavaScript to something else, and like, you guys can switch the runtime.
Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
- ▶ 0:41 Guillermo Rauch Uh, I have a long history of being involved in the JavaScript ecosystem, TypeScript ecosystem.
Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
- ▶ 13:01 Sujay Jayakar Convex has like a pretty subtle distinction between null and undefined, like just similar to JavaScript.
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
- ▶ 2:04 Sunil Pai Cloudflare got that out for JavaScript developers.
- ▶ 7:49 Sunil Pai Under cloudflare slash agent starter, which is, as is the style in JavaScript development, there's a little one liner that you can take, run it in your terminal, and it spins up a project that has not just the agent framework, but a little… 2 times in the scene
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 30:08 Shawn Wang And then maybe three, from my point of view, JavaScript, uh, as a JavaScript guy, React Native was supposed to be that dream. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 22:29 Thomas Dohmke Um, and you know, imagine a GitHub, um, as a platform where you had only JavaScript libraries available or only, you know, React, um, uh, available to you.
How Pieter Levels Hit $67k MRR in 3 Weeks
- ▶ 6:28 Alex Lieberman I would have had to know some combination of coding languages like C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, and others, and I would have needed to be proficient in using a gaming engine like Unity or Unreal Engine.
Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- ▶ 12:06 Shawn Wang Yeah, so, like, and then I think one more thing that, like, ties to a previous conversation we had with, uh, Brett Taylor from OpenAI, which was, like, a lot of our code right now is just in languages that happen to be nice for humans to…
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 6:47 Martin Casado JavaScript is,
- ▶ 33:00 Martin Casado And so like, like I guess what were your guidance to be is if you have a company today that sells the JavaScript community that is core infrastructure.
- ▶ 36:57 Martin Casado I mean, is it still JavaScript and like, is it still the web as we know it? 4 times in the scene
Google AI studio replaces your AI tech stack (full demo)
- ▶ 27:15 Logan Kilpatrick Yeah, I think my, uh, as someone who, you know, shout out and credit to my mom who's learned to code as like, you know, in, in like later in her life and like the amount of time that I spent, like literally pair programming with her, like…
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 10:23 Bret Taylor Well, even until recently it was better than most JavaScript minifiers because it was more like 5 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 3:09 Shawn Wang Before we dive in further on the, on the AI side of things, something I'm mildly curious about, you know, obviously there's a Zod in JavaScript land.
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 29:06 Steven Sinofsky And, and it's, to me, this is all the equivalent of the browser getting JavaScript. 2 times in the scene
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 14:57 Amjad Masad Um, and I was tasked, um, by, uh, the founder of React and the founder of React Native, Jordan Walk, to build, uh, the JavaScript tool chain for, for React Native. 2 times in the scene
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 28:23 comfyanonymous (Comfy) And then I found this library, light graph, like JavaScript library. 2 times in the scene
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 1:25:53 Shawn Wang Uh, you know, you're very JavaScript centric. 3 times in the scene
Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier
- ▶ 52:24 Omar Choudhry So this is where Zapier allows you to just kind of run some code, like Python or JavaScript.
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:16 Amjad Masad You need to download the runtime, basically Python or JavaScript.
[Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 1:13:19 Ankur Goyal And in JavaScript, arbitrary code execution is such, itself, such a dynamic thing.
Episode 734 | The 20 Year Bootstrapper (With Ian Landsman)
- ▶ 10:50 Ian Landsman I don't even know JavaScript. 2 times in the scene
Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
- ▶ 11:49 Colin Nederkoorn At this time, there is this, like, proliferation of all these JavaScript MVC frameworks, and we decided to, to bet on one.
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 1:20:09 Alistair Pullen Um, again, like to your point, JavaScript, JavaScript, JavaScript, Python, right? 2 times in the scene
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 47:30 Shawn Wang So Malta Ubo, who's the CTO of Vercel, who is creating basically JavaScript's, uh, you know, competitor to Langchain.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 15:06 Shawn Wang The JavaScript mind is too advanced.
- ▶ 31:34 Michelle Pokrass As a backend engineer who's always struggled with JavaScript and frontend, like, for me, that's super cool.
Cursor AI tutorial for beginners
- ▶ 16:15 unnamed speaker Or you want to use JavaScript, you know, tell it, you know, um, I actually want to use JavaScript, not TypeScript, and then you can manually edit that yourself, or I can just be lazy, tell it to do that, and then look, React JavaScript. 3 times in the scene
I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
- ▶ 48:40 Riley Brown So here it's giving us the JavaScript.
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 1:44 unnamed speaker And so like a doom clone in JavaScript.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:43 Ben Gilbert Think JavaScript, CSS, eventually, you know, Java and Flash.
How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year
- ▶ 21:13 Prashanth Chandrasekar And by the way, reputation accrues back to the user if you're the best JavaScript programmer.
4 profitable startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
- ▶ 18:36 Greg Isenberg So then he's put this, this chart of basically the fastest growing and highest paying jobs in 20, 24, Python, marketing, node, backend, TypeScript, sales, Ruby, React, non, non-tech, JavaScript, customer support.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 3:23 Sam Schillace With gdocs for sure when we did rightly originally and like JavaScript was there, but it was buggy and not standardized and there weren't any frameworks and there weren't any tools and the cloud didn't really exist.
- ▶ 4:40 Sam Schillace I remember looking at the browser penetration of JavaScript. 2 times in the scene
Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, H...
- ▶ 20:48 unnamed speaker So, for instance, people usually use JavaScript, Python, Rails, maybe Java, and other mainstream technologies to build their product and to build their business.
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
- ▶ 1:21:26 unnamed speaker Nowadays, any five-year-old kid can use JavaScript to make Tom in, like,
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:43 Daniel Dines I didn't program JavaScript, but I learn. 2 times in the scene
I Made $2.5M Selling A Digital Product
- ▶ 10:01 Thomas Frank That's all JavaScript and no JS.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 31:57 Ben Firshman It was APIs next, and APIs happened because one of our users, our web form had like an internal API for making the web form work, like with a, an API that was called from JavaScript, and somebody
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