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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 To Create Ai Agents From Scratch (CrewAI, Zapier, Cursor)
- ▶ 50:45 João Moura Um, and that's where we see like, um, like integrations with SAP, Salesforce, pulling all those different sources, executing some Python before,
- ▶ 1:38:14 João Moura And then when you get precision is more on the Python files is where you spend the time, like adding checks, creating this Python objects, the structures where you can use guard rails and where you can use collect before and after kickoff… 2 times in the scene
Best of 2024 in Agents (from #1 on SWE-Bench Full, Prof. Graham Neubig of OpenHands/AllHands)
- ▶ 8:21 Graham Neubig And the method that we adopt in open hands instead is we provide these tools, but we provide them by just giving a coding agent the ability to call arbitrary Python code. 3 times in the scene
Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 34:43 unnamed speaker Here, I'm asking it to create a canvas that's used PyScript to execute Python in my browser. 2 times in the scene
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 24:48 unnamed speaker And his big complaint was your test coverage in your Python repository is garbage.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 37:33 unnamed speaker Um, yeah, I gave, I gave Prev and Kevin a lot of shit for my Python issues.
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
- ▶ 11:23 Eliot Horowitz We went to the Python meetup.
Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 48:34 Satya Nadella Like, interestingly enough, one of the most exciting things for me is Excel with Python is like GitHub with Copilot, right? 2 times in the scene
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 6:38 Wade Foster So, uh, you know, it tended to be me coming in and saying, hey folks, um, you know, if you want to build something yourself, you can, uh, go check out the APIs and you can, you know, write some Python and you can build an integration on…
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 19:42 Shawn Wang Like you can run Git, you can run Node, you can run, uh, maybe Python, uh, someday.
- ▶ 1:25:55 Shawn Wang We've talked about Python forever, Ruby maybe. 4 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:31 Omar Choudhry And so the reason we added the asterisks is because that is a, a rule we set, a bit like an indicator for the next step, which is another piece of Python code we're going to add. 5 times in the scene
The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
- ▶ 6:19 Erik Schluntz It's, first of all, it's only Python repos.
- ▶ 1:08:39 Shawn Wang Mostly unless you're using Python.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:19:27 unnamed speaker I mean, the, one of the biggest chat GPT, uh, like improvements was when it got the ability to write Python, run that, and then do math because yeah, 2 times in the scene
Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:16 Amjad Masad You need to download the runtime, basically Python or JavaScript.
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 14:22 Matt Meeker So it was witches and pagans and vampires and vampire hunters and, um, these real fringe groups and then technology oriented groups, um, around Python coding language, things like that.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 5:19 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:10:42 John Coogan Little bit trickier, lower level language that you need to learn, but now you can just write Python code, and the LLM can, like, transform it into whatever very quickly.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 2:00 Erik Bernhardsson So, so we basically, you can think of as like, we take, you, you, you write a little bit of Python code, and we take that code, we stick it in a container, we execute that in the cloud in a way we don't have to think about infrastructure.
- ▶ 11:38 Erik Bernhardsson And I realized what I want is I just want something that like, lets me define application code in Python.
Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:34 Richard Socher And in this case, genius mode was basically one of our agents that can decide when to search, when to follow up additional deeper searches on the web for you, when to program, when to actually run that code, which is non-trivial, like for…
- ▶ 43:16 Richard Socher I can just drag and drop images and text documents into browser, train a neural net and apply it, uh, in your company with three lines of Python code.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 16:03 Jordan Tigani You know, if you're running in Python, for example, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:27 Jordan Tigani There's a DuckDB running in your web browser, as well as on the server, um, or if you're running in a Python process, or you're running, you know, you're writing some code that, you know, connects to, that connects to Mother Duck, there's…
Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo
- ▶ 40:11 Shawn Wang And like, is that's the third one that we speak Python as a second language.
[Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
- ▶ 2:12 Jesse Hu From 12 Python repos, uh, the repos like Django, uh, can't remember the rest of them, a bunch of numeric computing, uh, repos, uh, things that are really well maintained, have a big community, have a lot of unit tests, um,
- ▶ 33:23 Jesse Hu Um, the idea here is like, you know, screw all this Python stuff, uh, scientific computing, no one cares. 3 times in the scene
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 13:11 Drew Houston There's, like, a front-end React thing and a Python back-end thing, and so it can do these, like, end-to-end diffs, basically. 2 times in the scene
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 44:46 Ankur Goyal And this one, um, is, uh, Python code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:19 Ankur Goyal Async Python is really hard to use, so we made it easy to use. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:51 Ankur Goyal At the time, and still, like, AI is sort of at least nominally dominated by Python, but product building is dominated by TypeScript.
- ▶ 1:06:49 Ankur Goyal Speaking of TypeScript, we only had a Python SDK.
He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
- ▶ 17:30 Dan Lorenc Like the Python image, the most up-to-date Python image, if you're going to start writing Python code, and you grab that from, um, like Docker Hub or something like that, it'll have 1400 vulnerabilities, um, before you even start writing… 2 times in the scene
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 7:25 Richard Socher and eventually Java and now Python.
No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal
- ▶ 8:04 Ankur Goyal Yeah, I mean, I think it's, it's kind of like the difference between writing Python code and, um, creating an FPGA or something.
- ▶ 23:38 Elad Gil And Python is a language of machine learning? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:18 Ankur Goyal Now you can create, uh, more advanced functionality, uh, with Python code and TypeScript code and stitch it together with your prompts in the product all the way through to, you know, evals and observability.
Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- ▶ 10:35 Amjad Masad Uh, so this is, you know, all the Python environment packages you would need to, to be able to make this application.
[Paper Club] Berkeley Function Calling Paper Club! — Sam Julien, Writer
- ▶ 3:42 Sam Julien A lot of the, um, this initial set of function calling was very focused on specific like language tasks, um, across Python and other languages.
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 1:06:13 Simon Willison I've had it write me custom SQLite extensions in C, and compile them, and run them inside of Python, and it works.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:45 Shunyu Yao Because if you think about a web agent versus, you know, like a function calling agent calling a Python API, you would think of them as very different.
- ▶ 38:18 Shunyu Yao Python and you can call any package and then you can literally also browse internet or do whatever you want, like control a robot or whatever.
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- ▶ 8:01 Alexandr Wang So if they have to use one tool and then another tool, let's say they have to look something up and then write a little Python script and then chart something, you know, if they use multiple tools in a row, they just suck at that.
llm.c's Origin and the Future of LLM Compilers - Andrej Karpathy at CUDA MODE
- ▶ 18:14 Andrej Karpathy There's no need for Python, no need for PyTorch.
- ▶ 22:17 Andrej Karpathy So I don't actually know if we, like, the use of Python and PyTorch and everything else is just a crutch, because we humans are finite.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 15:00 Shawn Wang Oh, no Python! 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:13 Michelle Pokrass I know some folks want to match programming languages like Python.
- ▶ 1:02:39 Alessio Fanelli We have a Python notebook that does the diarization for the pod, but I would just like, you can translate like 50 languages, but you cannot tell me who's speaking.
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 27:06 Lenny Rachitsky And I'm like, I'm too busy to build, while I'm building to learn these new things and
Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
- ▶ 33:36 Sridhar Krishna These are like established programs for which probably money already exists, but I am talking about somebody realizing that Python is a useful skill to learn. 2 times in the scene
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 1:00:05 Shaan Puri This little language, Python started to get really popular on repli. 4 times in the scene
Cursor AI tutorial for beginners
- ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker If it's Python, you go, you go to Python, copy it, and then create a dot cursor rules file. 4 times in the scene
Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404)
I can't believe we coded an app with AI in 67 mins (V0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
- ▶ 53:34 Riley Brown And if we just use, like, Python and we didn't care about how good it looks, it would be much easier to create. 3 times in the scene
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 11:56 Nicholas Carlini Like tell me how to run a Python program in a Docker container.
- ▶ 29:52 Nicholas Carlini And it turns out that it can, and it can turn the compiled source code, which is impossible for any human to understand into the Python code that is entirely reasonable to understand.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 11:04 Alistair Pullen Even when, like, you had 3.5 16 K, 16 K suddenly felt huge, because you've gone from four to 16, but even then, 16 K is, like, a lot of Python files are longer than 16 K.
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 50:28 Jeremy Howard So yeah, there's this thing called fast HTML, um, which basically lets you create a complete web application in a single Python file. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:48 Jeremy Howard You know, where the outcome of the dialogue is, you know, the, the artifacts that you want, whether it be a piece of analysis, or whether it be a Python library, or whether it be a technical blog post, or whatever.
No Priors Ep. 75 | With Co-Founder and CEO of Brex Pedro Franceschi
- ▶ 5:44 Pedro Franceschi I prototyped something on the weekend with, you know, in, in Python with GPT-PT-Port five on, can we just get someone's calendar and use that context to generate a memo, categorize an expense, and potentially find a receipt, uh, on…
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
- ▶ 10:38 Danny Postma So before, when I started like two years ago, if you want to do anything with machine learning, that's deep, like with AI, that's deeper than just calling chat GPT, you had to write Python, right? 2 times in the scene
AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
- ▶ 5:18 Kim Branson You know, how, you know, through Daphne and other people, and you knew he was, and he, you know, he could write some Python, right?
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 56:34 Krithika Muthukumar And so I worked with ChatGPT to create a Python script that was our first lead scoring module that we put into production for the sales team.
[LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
- ▶ 27:27 unnamed speaker Um, is one of the benchmark data sets that people use to, to benchmark coding, and it's very simple, like they have a 150 questions, and it's almost like autocomplete, like solve this simple puzzle in Python or things like that.
- ▶ 1:09:02 unnamed speaker Like, uh, you can try this in Python and add 0.1 plus 0.1, you might get 0.19999, not 0.2.
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 22:54 Sharon Zhou Let's see, um, uh, we're a stack on top that people are able to install on top of Docker, Kubernetes, um, or even bare metal compute, uh, and developers are able to interface with it through familiar REST APIs or, you know, optional Python…
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke -- The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup
- ▶ 8:52 Thomas Domke Generates a Python script that then, you know, plots that data into a chart and it shows you the chart 2 times in the scene
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:44 John Coogan And he, he wrote a blog post about, uh, how to use like this graph tool to visualize like nodes in a graph, like a social graph, but using R Kelly as like the, as like the, the, the date, the raw data that you would run this, uh, this…
How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year
- ▶ 8:43 Prashanth Chandrasekar They're using Python. 2 times in the scene
Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- ▶ 29:45 Jessica Lachs Uh, I completely self-taught, uh, in terms of SQL and Python.
- ▶ 32:33 Jessica Lachs Well, let's learn Python.
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 27:29 Azeem Azhar Can we automate this particular task where, which is an edge edge case that we haven't spent the time putting in the nested if, if they're now statements in Python, but maybe an LLN can kind of deal, deal with it for us.
State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
- ▶ 34:35 Josh Albrecht It's like bash and Python and SSH and Docker.
How To Hire AI Engineers (ft. James Brady and Adam Wiggins of Elicit)
- ▶ 13:46 James Brady Backend Python code all the way to the, to the front end in TypeScript and find that is, I mean, we're probably doing this anyway, but it really helps one reason around the shapes of the data, which can going to be going back and forth. 4 times in the scene
4 profitable startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
- ▶ 18:11 Greg Isenberg So I saw this really good tweet by Peter levels on Twitter and he goes, if you're looking for a remote job, go learn Python and apply for jobs in AI. 3 times in the scene
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 31:39 Sam Schillace We could probably sit down with ChatGPT right now and get a VisiCalc clone written Python by the end of this podcast, right?
- ▶ 49:23 Sam Schillace If you can pound out a lot of Python or Rust or whatever it is,
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.
VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
- ▶ 24:17 Arjun Sethi So if you look at, you know, how people sort of architect, um, with, you know, uh, Python versus, um, Xcode, et cetera, it's all pretty structured.
A few $30k+/month startup ideas from the most manic/genius founder you've never heard of
- ▶ 10:52 Cody Schneider Like it's not, I mean, a Python script could do that whole thing.
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
- ▶ 1:03:36 Joscha Bach If you ask the LLM to translate a bit of Python into a little bit of C, and it's performing this task, obviously it is understanding in the sense that it has a,
High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
- ▶ 4:39 Jason Liu If you just optimize your Python code here, we can probably make an extra million dollars.
- ▶ 12:29 Jason Liu Like, if you were gonna go make, like, HTTP requests in Python, you would obviously import requests. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 Jason Liu I think because it's just, again, it's like, it's just Python, right?
- ▶ 33:05 Jason Liu Like, I think, like, because of my background, it's like, yeah, like the Python stuff, I'll write myself, but you know, I will also just use Vercel happily.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 23:39 Ben Gilbert It's sort of the Python of its day.
- ▶ 23:41 Ben Gilbert I think the way Python is now, where you sort of joke that Python is so flexible, you know, you can, like, accidentally write a program by writing English, and it can kind of forgive a lot of mistakes, and it reads kind of like English.
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
- ▶ 25:21 Morgan McGuire And so it was able to learn from looking at Python or Java code, how to write Lua code for Roblox.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 1:01:03 Chris Dixon You've got as much freedom with a blank page of paper writing Python.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot T...
- ▶ 7:26 Rob Walling I don't want to spin up a, like, I, I have enough trouble with, you know, we have a couple apps written in Python, and it's like, I'm always like, where are those hosted?
2024 will be the year of ENTERPRISE AI | Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku
- ▶ 16:06 Florian Douetteau People that don't love doing Python. 2 times in the scene
Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:05 Chandra Narayanan They, they graded Python, but this is a C++ problem. 2 times in the scene
Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack,...
- ▶ 30:18 Rob Walling Often, the tech stack is Node.js or some Python weirdness, not Django, or some .NET thing, etc.
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