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every year every show Latent Space 324 the MAD Podcast 232 the a16z Podcast 67 the Startup Ideas Podcast 42 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 41 No Priors 41 TBPN 40 Top Founders 38 
Lenny's Podcast 37 
20VC 33 
Startups For the Rest of Us 19 
My First Million 17 
the Neon Show 17 
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In Depth 13 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 10 
A Product Market Fit Show 10 
Capital Allocators 10 
Acquired 8 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 8 
Sourcery 8 
the Knowledge Project 7 
Cheeky Pint 6 
Catalyst 6 
Mixergy 5 
the Green Blueprint 5 
All-In 5 
BG2 Pod 3 
American Optimist 3 
Invest Like the Best 3 
How I Built This 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
Startup Acquisition Stories 2 
We Live to Build 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
David Senra 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Python comes up on Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, the a16z Podcast, the Startup Ideas Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 13:22 David Cramer And then at some point I got sort of like when my career started was when I started learning Python and Django. 3 times in the scene
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:34 Andrej Karpathy Um, so maybe, uh, to summarize the difference, if you're doing sentiment classification, for example, you can imagine writing some, uh, amount of Python to, to basically do sentiment classification, or you can train a neural net, or you…
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 7:59 Chris Lattner So programming language, syntax, member of the Python family, make it much more accessible and easy to write kernels and performance and all that kind of stuff.
- ▶ 12:01 Chris Lattner It doesn't have Python in the loop and for eager mode op dispatch and stuff like this, because you don't have all that dependency. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 Chris Lattner I didn't say it's a replacement for Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:52 Chris Lattner And also it looks like Python, so you could read it, but it just like massively scales the on-ramp.
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:53 Cameron McCord Things like win plot people know, but a lot of MATLAB has used Python analysis, Python scripts, some of the national instruments, you know, tools, things like that to do modern test engineering.
- ▶ 45:30 unnamed speaker Like we have very sophisticated, very technical users that, um, are proficient in Python and can build a lot of this like last mile, uh, work themselves.
- ▶ 54:30 Cameron McCord You know, a mode where I think just given this sort of some of the software tools that were available to them, they were, you know, using a lot of, um, you know, Python scripts and MATLAB and then sort of bridging into this world where you…
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 1:12 David Kirkos So it speaks Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:49 unnamed speaker Do you think that will be mostly Python once the model does most of the analysis or what's the kind of like the future of formulas, I guess? 6 times in the scene
The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private with Bill Gurley · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 47:00 Bill Gurley The way, the way when you ask an AI math now, it goes off and writes Python.
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 to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 25:27 Matt Mazzeo It was like, free to hang, and I was like, I learned Python to like, figure out how to send him an app in a REPL that I could like, you know, pick a meeting time, and it was like.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 17:32 Mike Krieger Most of the rest of Anthropic is written in Python.
The AI Coding Factory
AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
- ▶ 7:19 Kyle Norton I took one Python course in early, 20, 23, when ChatGPT was blowing up just to learn a little bit about it.
- ▶ 44:54 Jason Lemkin Listen, I'm a little tech savvy, but I haven't pulled up my Python coding.
He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Ligh... · PMF Show
- ▶ 43:36 Dax Dasilva Like a lot of the stuff was being built in Python and, and, uh, um, and so, yeah,
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 8:14 Krithika Shankarraman Like I sat down with ChatGPT and I coded up a Python script.
⚡️Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
- ▶ 33:57 Will Brown Don't, don't have a 2000 line Python script that does that.
ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
- ▶ 29:20 Ben Tossell Proper development environment when you're building something that is a bit more, it's got frameworks like Next.js, Python, whatever, like it's got things in it that's more than HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which is more what I talked about…
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 20:23 unnamed speaker Like I think this part, like when some, if somebody wants to contribute, it's like pretty easy to go through the Python, but then figuring out how everything gets kind of scheduled because it takes so long to do the transcript and all of…
- ▶ 29:43 Silas Alberti And CUDA channels are just so cool because you can just, like, compare the Python implementation with the CUDA implementation. 2 times in the scene
Innovating Construction Tech: SmartBarrel’s Labor Management Solution
- ▶ 20:10 Albert Bou Fadel So I spent a year, uh, self-taught myself electronics, built, uh, this actually tiny box, built it myself, learned Python coding.
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 14:04 unnamed speaker Like, Python is one.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 7:55 Guido Appenzeller You know, my new Python project with UV or something like that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:45 Guido Appenzeller Overpaid staff or a PhD that trains a model for you, but instead, you can now express and steer the model with a prompt, and so, you know, a fairly, say, mediocre Python programmer can suddenly leverage a very powerful LLM just by, by, by…
Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
- ▶ 46:37 Jeremy Howard And so then we built a system on top of that, which also takes advantage of some kind of core capabilities built into the Python programming language. 8 times in the scene
3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa
- ▶ 4:27 unnamed speaker I have someone like, uh, on behind me to deploy some of the code automation scripts, Python scripts they wrote, uh, on the servers, because they had some use case where HubSpot wasn't integrating with another tool or some workflow wasn't…
Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- ▶ 25:34 Evan Kaplan Capacitor was our, um, let's call it a task engine built around the database, but the version three of the database has an embedded Python VM with a set of triggers that allows you to do a variety of stuff at the database, um, to, you…
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 10:42 Boris Cherny It's kind of this research tool that's, uh, you know, it's like written using Python.
- ▶ 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.
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 30:51 Nathan Sobo Well, AI is going to become an ever grow, you know, growing Python part.
Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- ▶ 14:43 Kwindla Hultman Kramer So what we try to do in the pipe cat world is we do a bunch of things in parallel and separate Python tasks and have abstractions for kind of putting those things together or having those things interact in useful ways.
- ▶ 18:35 Kwindla Hultman Kramer It runs Python.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 20:38 Scott Wu And software engineering is, you know, we think of it today, obviously, as Python and C++ and JavaScript and all these things.
- ▶ 26:34 Scott Wu You know, when you work with Python today, obviously, a lot of things are already abstracted away from you, and in some sense, you know, someone from 50 years ago might already call Python, you know, you just get to explain in English what… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:27 Scott Wu And so, so, you know, the, the, the parallel that I would kind of draw is, you know, when we invented Python, obviously like we, we didn't, you know, it's, it's, it's like in many ways, you know, the description of the, and the outlining…
No Priors Ep. 113 | With OpenAI's Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie
- ▶ 1:58 Eric Mitchell Whereas like a relatively simple Python program can, you know, solve a particular problem very easily.
What is an RL environment? w/ Nous Research's Roger Jin
⚡️Factorio Learning Environment: the ultimate Game Agent Eval — Jack Hopkins
- ▶ 5:52 Jack Hopkins And we ultimately settled on a code synthesis approach where these models would write Python code and those Python code in that Python code would invoke certain high level actions, such as move to this distant point or place an entity next… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 Jack Hopkins Um, as mentioned, because they execute Python programs, they can kind of come up with quite complicated policies, which a human player would have to kind of develop on the fly.
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 9:37 Will Brown Like, like I think when people say program synthesis, like we're already there, like O three is program synthesis, but the programs are like JSON and Python.
No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
- ▶ 6:35 Isa Fulford And then also it has access to a Python tool so it can do analysis and calculations and plot graphs and things like that.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 9:44 Vasek Mlejnsky And, um, what was, I think, especially early on, like Python was the language that the models were probably the best or one of the first languages where the models were working very well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 Alessio Fanelli And then people use depending on the, because the difference that maybe people don't think about is like, you can generate the code with the Python SDK, but you can still run Lua code or like R code. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 Vasek Mlejnsky I also like it's like TypeScript first, uh, which I thought like it's the right decision because as, as we talked about, like being more bullish on the product developers, instead of like a Python machine learning type of a developer, I've…
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 21:14 unnamed speaker So I see some details of the stack, which is Python, FastAPI, Flask, Mongo, and Postgres.
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 1:11:46 Aaron Levie You know, I like the idea of, of being able to, you know, deploy an agent to say, you know, just make this SDK work in, you know, a new language, or there's a new Python update. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 30:59 Bret Taylor Probably this funniest example of this is Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:15 Bret Taylor That's a great, um, great question, but actually I'll, you know, it's still funny to me that we'd be generating Python, you know, just because for anyone who's listening right now has ever operated a web service running Python, it's CPU…
GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- ▶ 12:21 unnamed speaker I think I was actually very surprised how all models seem to have more difficulty than I would have expected on a task that, you know, we would find very simple or like, you know, maybe an, uh, an undergrad could write a Python script to,…
How AI Can Enable AMBITION| | Pratap Ramade on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 7:03 Pratap Ramade It was like, uh, I mean, already weirdly Python was an abstraction over like, you know, C plus, like it's not as hard as C plus plus.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 48:43 Sridhar Ramaswamy There's always been pain associated with getting data out to business users, especially new data, different kinds of insights very quickly, because they live in, in tables, and people have to write this language called SQL or bits of…
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 22:56 Kevin Weil So you can talk about a model being amazing at competitive coding, which may not be the same as that model being great at front end coding or back end coding or taking a whole bunch of code that's written in COBOL and turning it into…
Is AI UNDERVALUED? | Scott Wu on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 11:33 unnamed speaker You know, the ability to not just know Python, but also speak Russian, and Chinese, and any, any, and Japanese, and all these different languages, it seems to increase overall intelligence, even though it's not the narrow set that you…
Mike Knoop (Arc Prize) on Why Scaling AI Won’t Get Us to AGI
- ▶ 8:29 unnamed speaker I, um, I remember when, uh, when ChatGPT got a computer and it was, and it was able to write some Python code, then execute it.
Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
- ▶ 22:52 David Hershey So it's actually still just, like, represented as a Python dictionary, but it can choose to, like, load or unload a file from its memory.
- ▶ 29:50 unnamed speaker And Python's really not that bad anymore with UV.
- ▶ 1:04:16 Jesse Han Um, so specifically, what you'll need to submit is that you'll need to submit a GitHub gist that implements a subclass of the Eva agent, um, and, uh, you can use this, uh, Python file as a template, uh, and however you modify it, it needs… 2 times in the scene
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 10:48 unnamed speaker Um, that was TypeScript, Python, and then for the Zed integration, it was Rust.
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
- ▶ 25:16 Francois Chollet Maybe you could also just use a, a generic programming language like Python. 2 times in the scene
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 26:14 Dharmesh Shah So I have a 14 year old right now and is taking Python programming class.
- ▶ 49:12 Dharmesh Shah The fact that it has access to a Python interpreter that I can actually call at runtime, that solves an entire body of problems that it wasn't trained to do. 4 times in the scene
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 10:07 Amjad Masad Like imagine setting up a modern web, uh, you know, app, let alone trying to set up like a Python environment. 2 times in the scene
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 15:59 Jensen Huang Could you imagine if a human had to write this in Python?
Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
- ▶ 3:45 Sujay Jayakar Being able to now reproduce this and see how changes to the platform or changes to the backend, you know, like we, this framework supports convex, but we also compare it to Supabase and we compare it to like a more traditional kind of…
He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show
- ▶ 42:38 Edo Liberty At some point, again, I don't, I don't, I don't know if you remember the early days, but of that, but pretty much anybody that knew how to write any level, like any Python, you know, the, the dentist who did the computer science at, uh,… 3 times in the scene
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 28:39 Kevin Ben-Smith So the general tech stack is our entire back end is, or 90% of our back end is written in Python.
- ▶ 53:45 Shawn Wang Uh, is it Django, just like the Python one?
[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
- ▶ 21:03 Shawn Wang I don't know if you guys have seen, uh, you know, in the way, in the same way that I think, uh, Hamill likes Marimo, which is like a sort of Python reinvention of the notebook. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 2:25 Thomas Dohmke We're going to see, you know, improved reasoning, and I think it's as the models get better in reasoning, uh, we're going to get closer to a hundred percent of this VBench, which is that benchmark out of 12 repos, um, uh, open source…
- ▶ 12:10 Thomas Dohmke Uh, you know, build, uh, a snake game in Python and it writes all the code for you, right?
- ▶ 17:17 Thomas Dohmke We have the machine language layer, you know, which is Python or Ruby or Rust, right?
- ▶ 28:18 Elad Gil You know, you're not going to use Go, you're just going to use Python or whatever.
- ▶ 42:45 Thomas Dohmke I think there's going to be a next programming language after Python and, and TypeScript and, and Rust and, and Rust in itself, you know, uh, wasn't really a thing, uh, uh, five years ago.
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.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 16:25 Mark Lawrence And he said, um, well, you should, um, use Python. 2 times in the scene
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… 2 times in the scene
How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
- ▶ 10:44 David Hershey Cause I could have done it, but there's a lot of like tedious here are addresses in memory, map that to a Python program that I had no interest.
- ▶ 26:53 David Hershey Like, it's, like, more or less a Python dictionary that's appended to the prompt.
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:37 George Bonaci They need to learn Python.
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:52 Adarsh Hiremath One could argue that the leap from assembly to Python was actually maybe even a bigger leap than the leap from Python to natural language. 2 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…
Going Long: How Procore’s Founder Tooey Courtemanche Built a Billon-Dollar SaaS Empire Over 23 Years
- ▶ 29:26 Tooey Courtemanche I've been just writing stuff in Python like crazy, just trying to, that's why you put, you went deep seat local.
- ▶ 38:40 Jason Lemkin So you're getting back into Python.
smol agents are all you need
- ▶ 7:21 Aymeric (Emmerich) I thought that this had potential because they had built from the ground up a new Python interpreter, uh, basically making code agents, um, has big security, um, challenges. 3 times in the scene
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 38:54 Bret Taylor So the fact that we're still writing Python with AI cracks me up just cause it's like literally was designed to be ergonomic to write, not, not safe to run or fast to run. 12 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 1:46 Samuel Colvin I think the success of Pydantic and libraries like fast API that build on top of it means that today that's no longer controversial in Python.
- ▶ 3:58 Samuel Colvin Not convert to Python types. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:52 Samuel Colvin Like we're going to go off and three engineers are going to work full on for a year in Python and Rust. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Samuel Colvin Looking in general at the ecosystem of agent frameworks, the engineering quality is far below that of the rest of the Python ecosystem. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 Samuel Colvin I was sort of of the opinion you didn't need them, and you could use standard, like, Python flow control to do all of that stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 Shawn Wang Like, um, it looks like normal Pythonic code, but you just have to keep in mind what the type-ins actually do with the quote-unquote magic that the graph construction does. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Samuel Colvin Because my, like, just call the next agent with Python code was not a satisfactory answer to people, so it was like, okay, we gotta go and have a better answer for that, that, like,