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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator Jul 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

▶ 33:23 Jeff Dean And so if you have a Python implementation of something and you want a Go implementation of it, you know, that is something that the models seem incredibly capable of doing these days because you can, it can sort of take all the tests that… 2 times in the scene

Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2026 · 7 mentions

▶ 38:25 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, you use data pointers to figure out, like, what the past state is in Python, and then you, like, return that. 3 times in the scene
▶ 39:01 unnamed speaker Like, this just keeps happening, and it's just because, like, Python is a dynamic language, which makes it, like, a terrible choice for these things.
▶ 44:04 unnamed speaker And the idea was, you know, at first it was sort of, like, vibe coded in the sense of, like, it was a POC that ported Torch to Python, so basically it just, like, went from Lua to PyTorch Ops, and you could, like, it was verifiable,…
▶ 1:14:36 unnamed speaker Like, I see a lot of programming language systems are kind of trending towards, okay, it's still the Cuda programming model, but it's Python syntax on top, which is great, like, simplifies things, easier to look at, but it doesn't actually… 2 times in the scene

Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator May 1, 2026 · 1 mention

▶ 18:07 Francois Chaubard and you say, hey, there's this Python function called sort.

François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

▶ 53:44 François Chollet Like scikit-learn was sort of like the OG, um, machine learning library for Python.

AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

▶ 10:49 Madhav Jha We have a Python backend server.

Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

▶ 5:03 Boris Cherny It just like took the examples in Python.

We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator Feb 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

▶ 39:45 Calvin French-Owen I would say, uh, it does the most stuff that humans don't do kind of in this alpha go sense where it's like, oh, it'll write a Python script to like modify some part of the file system.
▶ 42:46 Calvin French-Owen Codex works very well on Python mono repos.