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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
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 31:25 Chamath Palihapitiya We're still struggling to get autocomplete for Python. 2 times in the scene
Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:41 John Coogan Yes, there's some weird scenario where there's a Python script that's AGI that can run on your laptop, but I think most people are convinced, at least in this crowd, um, that, uh, scale.
- ▶ 26:48 John Coogan A lot of it comes down to, like, the fact that it's simulating a, the actual representation of the fly makes it a lot more concrete than just, oh, yeah, it's a, it's a three-D model in a Python script that just says, if you see a, if you…
5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
- ▶ 18:03 Greg Isenberg Uh, there's also a Docker option if you'd rather not install Python locally, which I think some people, you know, would want to know that.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 22:48 Jerry Murdock Because that team was the geniuses that understood Python the best, PyTorch in particular.
Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:12 John Coogan In college, I built a system that would register for classes automatically, but it was just a Python for loop that would just refresh the page when the classes would become available because they would go online at like, seven a.m., and I…
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
- ▶ 28:28 Kevin Mandia You know, writing their own Python code and refining it when they find, ah, remote code execution capabilities or vulnerabilities.
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 44:29 Fred Turner Tell it to write Python to get these files into a standardized format because they're not very good at parsing files, but they're incredibly good at code gen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 Fred Turner And then every single time you throw that Python away and start from scratch.
- ▶ 53:23 Fred Turner And then basically ping them repeatedly until they answer her with custom emails, like, hey, I know about your practice, I know what you're doing, like, customized content to them, and then when she gets their attention, negotiate the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:16 Fred Turner You can generate really good CAD models by having it write Python to make the CAD model. 2 times in the scene
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
- ▶ 34:53 Andy Beam And so it's just the combination of reasoning often in English, but also in Python and things like that combined with tool use is very powerful
- ▶ 52:17 Andy Beam There, there are high-level abstractions, increasingly high-level abstractions, you know, used to just be Python and Java, now it's like cloud code, that help me answer questions faster.
Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
- ▶ 14:30 Bryan Catanzaro Uh, first Copperhead, which was a, it was a, a Python, uh, embedded language that, um, compiled to the GPU, um, which I think foreshadowed a lot of things in TensorFlow and, and PyTorch.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:52:02 Mike Krieger It was that conversion thing I did was just like a couple of million tokens, just like a lot of tokens that it took to to convert the the thing from from Python to TypeScript.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 32:29 Mike Krieger The tokeniest thing was that conversion thing I did was just like a couple of million tokens, just like a lot of tokens that it took to to convert the the thing from from Python to TypeScript.
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 21:43 Matei Zaharia Panther is kind of a similar idea on the event processing side and it's Python based versus a weird custom language.
AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
- ▶ 33:26 Matt Fredrikson No, like a Python script.
- ▶ 43:14 Matt Fredrikson It, it takes you like 10 or 20 times as long to like fight with the type checker, which is essentially like proving that you don't have a vulnerability as if, as it would if you just like went into Python or even Rust, right?
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 7:21 Jonathan Siddharth So I wouldn't be able to get into the specifics, but we, but it, it, it was about generating coding data to improve the models, um, for, um, at that time, the models were at the level of writing, um, like some relatively simple Python…
- ▶ 25:28 Jonathan Siddharth Let me write some Python code to analyze the data, to visualize the data and present it to you.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 1:01:53 Stephen Balaban You know, it outputs C code, which gets put through a compile, or it outputs Python code, which gets put through a Python interpreter.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:22 Matan Grinberg One's better at Python, this and that.
Claude Fable 5 is BACK
- ▶ 17:57 Greg Isenberg You can see here it says build with Python, fast API, uh, AP schedule, scheduler, um, what the pricing should be and what the scope, which should be out of, what should be out of scope for V one.
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 30:15 Carina Hong Um, your code is something like Python, your proof is, say, natural language, math proof.
#2307 Eric Ries: Why Anthropic Won and How To Build Incurruptible companies
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 34:23 Dallas Dolen Um, he was writing all the, all the, all the input Python code himself, and then he was taking it, bringing it into Claude, and he was saying, I want to automate the process that I'm currently, you know, doing with my team, um, and I want…
Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
- ▶ 15:08 Shawn Wang I was pretty conscious about it being 50% Python, 50% TypeScript. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 Matt Pocock That idea of sort of TypeScript coming and eating Python is something that I was betting on for a little bit.
AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- ▶ 37:21 Dmitry Shevelenko Uh, it will use, uh, Sonnet for writing the Python code to stitch together all the audio clips, and that's just in one, you know, uh, single, you know, deliverable task.
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
- ▶ 0:34 Zico Kolter That entire set of code, probably two to 300 lines of Python code.
- ▶ 1:14:01 Zico Kolter That entire set of code, probably two to 300 lines of Python code.
🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
- ▶ 33:02 Alex Lupsasca And I think what it did, I mean, at some point said, I wrote a Python code
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:17 John Coogan It could have written Python.
Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:07 Francois Chaubard and you say, hey, there's this Python function called sort.
Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
- ▶ 45:09 Mark Cuban Took one computer class, you know, know some Python that are gonna be able to go do these things.
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 21:05 Mikhail Parakhin Jupyter notebooks, or, or maybe you would get, uh, you know, Python, your Python scripts, and you would munch the data, and you produce those TSV files, and you put them in some GFS or something, then you would notice that, oh, it has… 3 times in the scene
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 24:09 Emil Eifrem Uh, yeah, I thought it was 300 lines of Python.
- ▶ 40:16 Emil Eifrem Uh, a really neat Python wrapper called UVX, like whatever, create context graph, right?
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 11:28 Ryan Lopopolo Tiny little bit of Python glue to spin all these up, and off you go.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 46:41 Alessio Fanelli I'll be like, oh, okay, Python is kind of slow. 2 times in the scene
How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:21 Tarek Alaruri So taught myself some Python, especially with AI.
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:35 unnamed speaker And so we actually wrote Python scripts
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 53:44 François Chollet Like scikit-learn was sort of like the OG, um, machine learning library for Python.
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:07 Turner Novak Also, all of the agents use CPUs to make web queries, search the web, run Python, spin up web servers, interact with anything.
Firecrawl AI clearly explained (and how to make $$)
- ▶ 22:39 Greg Isenberg So use Firecrawl agent, maybe a simple Python script, an NNN flow, or just use cloud code to go and build that for you.
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:58 unnamed speaker A couple thousand dollars on a Mac book and a lot of open source software because you're using Python and Linux and these things.
Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- ▶ 42:57 Shawn Wang Did you see that TypeScript overtook Python? 3 times in the scene
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- ▶ 1:02:11 Andrej Karpathy If you don't need it to go fast and you just care about the algorithm, then that algorithm actually is the 200 lines of Python.
Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:00 John Coogan I mean, we talk about this a lot where the big general model outperforms the smaller model, but at, at the limit, like if you were to think about like a Python if statement, just like flow control that is truly deterministic.
FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students
- ▶ 16:33 Mark Cuban It's not gonna be natural for them to do that, and I think kids coming out of school today that have taken some Python, don't have to be comp side majors, but have done agentic AI, like when I go talk to schools, that's what I tell them,…
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 13:43 Felix Rieseberg You can install Python.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Felix Rieseberg And that machine will probably not have Python. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:06 Felix Rieseberg Once it starts becoming a part of your workflow, you're probably not either, either you don't have the skill to understand whether or not this Python script is safe, or you're not going to read it anyway.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:49 Madhav Jha We have a Python backend server.
⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- ▶ 0:46 Samuel Colvin And now here I am building this, like, if you want a big pejorative slop fork of Python, mostly with AI, I think it's incredibly powerful.
- ▶ 5:03 Samuel Colvin And then the other massive win is latency, because if you can have a Python interpreter that runs inside the same process, you're looking at a boot time.
- ▶ 5:48 Shawn Wang and I like to, you know, obviously it's a Python interpreter, so it can run Python, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Samuel Colvin I mean, I think the other thing to say is like, I, I wanted to implement the like, 20 or so built-in functions available in Python. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Samuel Colvin So you, you see here, like we have the system prompt where we've basically told it what Python, what, what, what code it can use. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:50 Samuel Colvin And I think if we get to that point, we resort to Python or we resort to Monty for some of that stuff.
- ▶ 33:13 Shawn Wang I do see that there's a gap in Python for that.
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:00 Jordi Hays This prompt, I want to order a bowl, but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a Python script to reverse a link list.
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
- ▶ 18:24 Harrison Chase Those are the four that when we launched Deep Agents, and so the story behind launching Deep Agents was we saw, we saw Manus, we saw Cloud Code, we saw Deep Research, they all had these four things, um, and we were like, okay, that's,…
- ▶ 36:43 Harrison Chase Let's, let's put some of these, uh, common patterns into a Python package and release it.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:38 unnamed speaker Seven different NoSQL databases held together with Python scripts.
Karpathy's "autoresearch" broke the internet
- ▶ 1:10 Greg Isenberg And then an AI agent will actually plan what to do, like different settings, code changes, edits the Python code for you, runs a short training experiment on a GPU,
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 8:31 Bret Taylor If you think about what a compiler does, um, there's this interesting mix of like formality and informality, and if you've used like Python versus Rust, sort of different ends of the spectrum,
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- ▶ 52:16 Ryan Anderson They all want to interact with our data layer and have that be an AI first data layer, which means it needs to be in Python.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 1:11:17 Nader Khalil Would the model like use Python to do so? 2 times in the scene
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:54 Jerry Murdock 10 Python libraries, run them in 10 different sandboxes, write the work, the workload, and then to see which, which one performs better.
Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- ▶ 5:43 Alessio Fanelli You have some labels kind of like Trin classifier, fixed bugs, and small Python library.
AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
- ▶ 9:27 Corinna Hong And so lean is like similar to Python, but it also can serve as it's like self verifying, uh, function.
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 25:51 Reiner Pope It is a very parallel programming language, which makes it different than like C or Python or something. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:21 Reiner Pope We, as a company, we write Rust, we write Verilog, we write Python, um. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:00 Reiner Pope It's, it's how you write models in Python, uh, to run on TPUs.
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 31:18 Doug O'Laughlin Cloud for Excel is much worse than cloud code using Python to use the Excel skills to then deposit into.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 14:54 Neil Zeghidour And I asked if I could do it in MATLAB because I didn't know, I didn't even know Python. 2 times in the scene
Making $$$ with OpenClaw
- ▶ 18:28 unnamed speaker Python APIs, a genuine automation pipeline and process that your open claw can actually just trigger upon, um, whenever it's like contextually relevant. 2 times in the scene
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:03 Boris Cherny It just like took the examples in Python.
Claude Code built me a $273/Day online directory
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:36 John Coogan The only person with this particular Python script that that's probably going away, but network effects aren't.
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 7:06 unnamed speaker You're the only person with this particular Python script.
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:59 unnamed speaker And if you pair up some of the more deterministic tools, like basically tool use, like how ChatGPT can also do a math problem in Python and be a hundred percent accurate, you could imagine if you, if you want to just draw a rectangle on…
The AI Frontier: from Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flash — Jeff Dean
Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
- ▶ 12:29 Timothée LeCroix Tooling that you wouldn't expect where one thing that we've done is around code modernization, uh, where you're, you turn a bunch of Excel sheets into an actual, like, uh, Python app, uh, and if you have many, many of those sheets, then…
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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.
AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 24:14 Kevin Mandia You know, writing their own Python code and refining it when they find, ah, remote code execution capabilities or vulnerabilities.
State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
- ▶ 4:58 Sebastian Raschka It's like there was like a during training and objective to, if you have a Python code to say, okay, this, at this iteration, when I, if someone would step through the code, this variable would have that and that value.
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
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- ▶ 26:24 Andrew White It has like data analysis that goes, shows you like which line Python code led to the result here.
- ▶ 36:11 Andrew White Basically it's like you could express it in a concise Python file of like, you know, try a whole bunch of ideas, then go see if they all filter through literature or if they've been disproven, and then go like, ah, come up with experiments…
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:30:36 David Rosenthal Whether it's Python or Rust or C++, anything.
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