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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
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 14:34 David Soria Parra You want to, to have, like, a shared state that you can, like, have, and that's kind of ok, and like, we have seen this in PHP application and Python application being done, but it, it's,
- ▶ 1:00:14 David Soria Parra And so just like being an active part, like either giving us feedback, being in the discord channel, talking with us, giving us ideas, while also just helping us implementing like the types of SDKs, the Python SDKs.
Founder uses Genius Playbook to hit $1M revenue with no employees
- ▶ 20:33 Andrew Fennell That, um, enabled us to essentially type in, um, job titles, and then got a developer to write this Python tool, and we basically entered a load of, like, staple phrases, and what it would do is it would sort of randomize them, put them…
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 34:49 Ali Ghodsi And now, uh, finance has taken those over, and like, you know, uh, finance has kind of moved from Excel to Python, uh, largely at Databricks, but it was a journey, because, you know, most of the speakers speak Excel.
#2289 Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations
- ▶ 48:11 Wade Foster And so, you know, wrote a little Python script called like check setup or whatever.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 1:03:49 Raz Herzberg Like also when you say coding, so Python is very different than how they used to code, right?
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 3:18 Matt Bornstein Now full stack means I know JavaScript and Python.
No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- ▶ 6:02 Gabe Pereyra Here's a tool for C++.
- ▶ 10:27 Gabe Pereyra I'm just going to like learn Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:05 Gabe Pereyra I think that was something we did really well, where we just had this belief where I think the same that you see with the programming products, where if you had built something where it's like all this does is like check that your Python…
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:12 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, a few years ago, the kind of data set, uh, a contractor who could generate might look like, hey, write a Python program to sort some numbers.
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 49:39 Martin Casado And then another one I've seen is like actual pseudocops, like a Python function. 3 times in the scene
⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
- ▶ 17:59 Shawn Wang Like we think the models are good, but like actually they have been really trained into a certain sort of local minima of like, well, here's all the Python because Sweebench is all Python, all Django.
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.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 27:29 Jared Palmer And like, it's, it ends up doing Python and, and, and
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 47:06 unnamed speaker Like I want to change our national second language from Chinese to Python. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 33:25 Sridhar Ramaswamy It was a stream load apps, a Python app that you could get that kind of information from.
- ▶ 40:19 Sridhar Ramaswamy Instead, I should write the two lines of Python, which I know how to, you know, direct and run the Python in order to solve the math problem. 2 times in the scene
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- ▶ 18:57 unnamed speaker And I needed to run some sort of like file, some Python script.
⚡️Automating Scientific Discovery - Jessica Rumbelow, Leap Labs
- ▶ 12:54 Jessica Rumbelow Maybe like you can get them to use tools and stuff, but still, even if they're, you know, messing around in Python and doing matplotlib and pandas and like, and whatnot, they're still basically
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:28 Jake Heller Just Python code.
Claude Skills Built Me an AI Agent Army (They Run Everything Now)
- ▶ 23:28 unnamed speaker And then the scripts are made by Cloud itself, where it's running a Python script on, you know, calculating all this for you.
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
- ▶ 2:11 Amjad Masad So it's a, if it's a data app, we'll pick Python and stream it, whatever. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:10 Amjad Masad and then you go higher level, Python, JavaScript.
- ▶ 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, 3 times in the scene
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.
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- ▶ 1:02:12 Shawn Wang Basically, like they're, they're basically offering like a superset of Python that should be good for you, you specifically, you are the target audience for this. 2 times in the scene
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 19:28 Kyle Corbitt If you were to show that exact same equation, just, like, code, not, maybe not PyTorch code, because that you also have to, like, understand, but if you just, like, did the naive implementation in, like, Python, and, like, showed someone,… 3 times in the scene
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:02 Mike Cannon-Brookes They're writing Python code to do crazy complex analysis.
Building Jamba 3B: the tiny Hybrid Transformer State Space Reasoning Model - Barak Lenz, CTO of AI21
- ▶ 30:33 Barak Lenz Even without the enterprise, you definitely need Python and then web search to, to compensate.
How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans
Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:11 Jonathan Siddharth In the case of coding, uh, a contractor might create a question like, uh, hey, uh, help me, um, give me some Python code, uh, to train a text classifier to detect X posts into positive sentiment, neutral sentiment, negative sentiment.
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.
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 9:02 Jeremy Howard Literally any Python function that you put right there in that system is immediately a tool, and it's extraordinary what happens when you write a three-line function that can call grep or rg or whatever, and then you say like, hey, LLM,…
- ▶ 22:37 Alessio Fanelli You know, you might just keep using Solvit and then, you know, you do this for learning Python and then you kind of play out.
- ▶ 40:07 Eric Ries I skipped over this, but in that dialogue, you'll see that it said something like import reader comments as a, as a Python module. 7 times in the scene
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 3:55 Dylan Field And, uh, it's, I think, very exciting to think about how far you can help people go and how you can make them both more productive, but also help them explore more of the option space of design with some of these techniques.
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 8:13 Liam Fedus But now instead of just giving tools like here's Python, here's a browser,
- ▶ 44:39 Liam Fedus I think another thing is, um, when we think about tools for agents, we think of like, here's a browser, here's a Python, but increasingly people think about tools as other neural nets as other agents.
Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 27:56 Dylan Patel A lot of that was, here's how I use Python to, uh, write something that does the math for me.
- ▶ 46:26 Dylan Patel C and Python migration of, like, mainframes.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 1:08:21 Alessio Fanelli It's like, you know, when, um, Chris Ladner even started working on Mojo, it's like, okay, because of AI, I understand why you need to build a superset of Python.
⚡️ Beyond Transformers with Power Retention
- ▶ 9:30 Diego Bachman That's one of these more higher level Pythonic frameworks.
- ▶ 15:51 Diego Bachman And this is the baseline level of loss that it achieves on like a very standard, they call it the stack data set and specialized to Python.
#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.
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 0:43 Gorkem Yurtseven and then we decided to build a Python runtime in the cloud and that evolved into an inference system that evolved into what Fall is today, which is a generative media platform. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Batuhan Taskaya It's terrible for utilization, and they are not optimizing it, so let's just offer an optimized version of this that's ready for API to be scaled, and doesn't require people to deploy Python code, because we want product engineers to start…
- ▶ 7:54 Gorkem Yurtseven And like, essentially we had this Python runtime. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:42 Batuhan Taskaya I used to work at PyPy, like a just-in-time compiler for Python.
Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI
- ▶ 20:16 Gorkem Yurtseven So when we first started the company, we were more of a data infrastructure company and we had like a serverless Python runtime.
#2278 How to build a $15M/year AI company.
- ▶ 11:34 Pavel Dolezal You know, you, you, you should not be a part of the voodoo clan that knows how to SQL or Python, you know, like this is a business problem. 2 times in the scene
I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- ▶ 7:25 unnamed speaker Like, I mean, she could, if I like taught her Python.
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 11:18 Chris (Christian Weichel) And, you know, for, for weekend warrior where the setting it up on setting up the dev environment might not feel like much, but, you know, if you're working a bit of Python here and a bit of go over here and a bit of typescript over there,…
Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
- ▶ 27:12 Curtis Spahr I have tried Claude for coding and I am no Python expert by any stretch of the imagination.
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 21:34 Greg Brockman By the way, it does have access to Python tool as well.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 51:34 Amjad Masad With AI research on the margins, perhaps they can like, they can spin up Python notebooks faster. 2 times in the scene
Google’s Genie 3 Builds Game Maps From a Single Prompt
- ▶ 7:17 unnamed speaker Tool use and, uh, and a web browser and a Python repl and a bunch of other tools that have made it great.
Carta CEO Henry Ward on Raising $1B, Path to ~$500M ARR, & the Move into PE · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 26:46 Henry Ward Like, it's like being, being an engineer, but instead of programming using Python, you're programming using the English language, but most people aren't trained programmers.
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 39:54 John Coogan It's funny, one of the old, like, coding challenges was this thing called FizzBuzz, where you try and write out numbers from zero to one, and if it's odd, or if it's divisible by three, you write Fizz, and if it's divisible by seven, you…
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 2:04 Burkay Gur Pretty curious about his work on, on Python. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:29 Burkay Gur We had a Python runtime at that time. 4 times in the scene
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 38:26 Bret Taylor Some people write C, some people write Rust, but a lot of people write Python and TypeScript and things like that. 5 times in the scene
⚡️Using RFT to Build Clinical Superintelligence
- ▶ 6:51 Brendan Fortuna Often you could do a unit test, run some Python code, or even use an LLM grader, or even combine a bunch of graders together into a massive grader, you know, kitchen sink.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:33:24 Anshul Ramachandran Here is Cascade installing a requirements.txt file and independently realizing that it needed to use Python three instead of Python given my environment.
- ▶ 2:14:30 Shawn Wang I gave, I gave Preb and Kevin a lot of shit for my Python issues.
- ▶ 2:46:38 Kevin Hou And you can see that we're going to be building a Python web scraper. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:28 Martin Casado And so then all of these companies are going to add that, that, you know, that consumption layer value, like for example, to non-technical users or to Python users or to professional coders or whatever it is, and that's going to be a very…
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 12:58 John Coogan So it didn't have Python. 3 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
- ▶ 47:02 Jensen Huang You used to have to know C, and then C++, and Python, and, you know, in the future, everybody can program a computer, right?
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
OpenAI Just Cracked the World’s Toughest Math Challenge — Here's How
- ▶ 11:22 unnamed speaker So it didn't have Python. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 9:11 Martin Casado I know, it's so funny, because when Jennifer joined the team, she was very excited about low-code, but from my view, low-code is like Python.
- ▶ 37:01 Matt Bornstein And when you run a Python script, you can transform one piece of data into another piece of data like that.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 2:27:04 Martin Shkreli I think that, you know, it, it's sort of similar from back then. 3 times in the scene
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 0:48 Akshay Agrawal So Marimo is an open source notebook for Python that's built entirely from scratch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Akshay Agrawal You have cells of Python code, you have some markdown, and then you have some visual outputs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:01 unnamed speaker Yeah, I was just kind of curious if there's any part of the Python ecosystem that, you know, is not compatible with this.
- ▶ 24:22 Akshay Agrawal So if I go, uh, let's, I can open a notebook file, and we can take a look at what it actually looks like. 3 times in the scene
Does Grok 4 Deserve a Spot In Your AI Stack? (Here's The Truth)
- ▶ 4:18 Greg Isenberg Generate Python code for a simple founder tool like a lead gen bot.
- ▶ 9:21 Greg Isenberg Here's a sample Python code for email fetch.
Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
- ▶ 19:16 Pierre DeWulf And we did one for, you know, once you have something that works for Python, you can do all the language.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 52:41 Andrew Hsu If you've tried coding tools six months ago, and they weren't that great, especially if it's not TypeScript or Python, right?
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 59:47 Maor Shlomo He can write a Python script to analyze things that we do.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 48:28 Andrew Wilkinson So you can, you can literally be like, yeah, build a Python web app that does X, Y, Z.
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 12:49 Shawn Wang And now he's turned his attention to the Python CUDA relationship, right? 2 times in the scene
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 26:12 David Rosenthal So he codes it up in Python and
- ▶ 27:33 David Rosenthal So Larry and Sergey are building Batgrub here, and I mentioned Scott, Hassan, their friend who helps code it up in Python, doesn't end up joining Google.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 2:55 Shawn Wang And I didn't have some packages and it just, it just started suggesting things to me to fix my Python environment.
- ▶ 21:22 Zach Lloyd So if you're doing like work in Node or Python, Postgres, MySQL, it works in any REPL and it's a, uh, it's a pretty differentiated and cool feature of Warp.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 12:50 Peter Deng You know, he, you know, he goes to Python class, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Peter Deng And when ChatGPT does something really interesting, I tell people it's oftentimes just writing Python code and interpreting it. 2 times in the scene
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.
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