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Latent Space 59
the MAD Podcast 20
Cheeky Pint 10
No Priors 7
TBPN 7
Lenny's Podcast 5
the a16z Podcast 4
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every year every show Latent Space 59 the MAD Podcast 20 Cheeky Pint 10 No Priors 7 TBPN 7 Lenny's Podcast 5 the a16z Podcast 4 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
In Depth 2 
the Knowledge Project 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 Capital Allocators 2 
Acquired 1 
Founder's Journal 1 
the Neon Show 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
Big Technology 1 
20VC 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Rust comes up on Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, Cheeky Pint, No Priors, TBPN
AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:06 John Coogan You talk about Rust and Halo, like, these are, these are core memories for a lot of people.
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:15 John Coogan Let's see if it can one-v-one me on Rust, because if it's good at using the computer, it should be able to no scope, right?
Can AI Learn Mathematical Intuition?
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 26:11 Shawn Wang Uh, like Rust.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:24 Boris Cherny And he had the model rewrite it from Zig to Rust.
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 50:28 Matthew Prince So, you know, like, um, a while back of three, three, four months now, um, we, um, we, we rewrote WordPress, uh, in, in Rust in order to, um, in order to, to, to, um, to, to deliver it.
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 24:34 Matei Zaharia And we actually had some really cool insights just from analyzing current traces, like which models are better at, say, Rust versus like, you know, TypeScript or whatever.
AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
- ▶ 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? 2 times in the scene
Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:34 unnamed speaker We gotta do this, get a little rust going next time we're flying.
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 30:25 Carina Hong But if you have proof as Lean, and you have, you know, code, you can choose Rust, which is a strongly typed language.
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 1:04:33 Jake Cooper Internally, we have JavaScript, we have, uh, or we have TypeScript, we have Rust, and we have Go.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:41 John Coogan But at the same time, I mean, you were probably two years old when Modern Warfare II came out, so you gotta sort of relearn the, the old, the old tricks, the old tricks on Rust.
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 22:21 unnamed speaker Let's see what it does in Rust. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 46:25 Alessio Fanelli We have Brett Taylor on the podcast, and we were talking about Rust, and, you know, Rust is memory safe by default, so why are we teaching the model to not write memory unsafe code? 2 times in the scene
Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
- ▶ 51:00 Andrej Karpathy But it could be that the frontier, the need for frontier intelligence is gonna be, like, you know, Nobel Prize kind of work, or, like, let's move Linux from C to Rust.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:26 Rory O'Driscoll I hadn't thought of it, but deck cleaning going on in that maybe I don't need 20 engineers who all know, you know, C++ and Ross.
⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- ▶ 0:54 Samuel Colvin But like, this is a crazy world where you can sit down over Christmas and write 30,000 lines of rust that, that is actually powerful and useful.
- ▶ 9:15 Samuel Colvin A single Rust binary, ultimately, that you can install with PyPI or with NPM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:47 Samuel Colvin Basically cloning Redis right now in Rust.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 26:29 Simon Eskildsen Turbo Puffer is like a Rust binary running on a single eight core machine in a Tmux instance.
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,
AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
- ▶ 22:58 Corinna Hong I think the sort of gap between, say, for example, Lean and another, like, strongly typed language like Rust is a lot closer than the gap between Lean and English.
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 45:21 Reiner Pope We, as a company, we write Rust, we write Verilog, we write Python, um. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:58 John Collison Quiet Rust. 6 times in the scene
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.
The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:40 John Coogan Much like being on rust with a, with an absolute killer with your absolute boy.
Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- ▶ 14:41 Zach Lloyd I think anything that does like either automatic security analysis or automatic verification, I think actually like languages like rust, things that have stronger guarantees around safety by default, where you don't need to rely on like a…
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- ▶ 1:03:02 Shawn Wang You know, I, I see, I see Rust in your code base, you Python, I see, you know, you're experimenting with different optimizers.
Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- ▶ 25:04 John Coogan He's like, no, no, seriously, I mean, he's like some, like, I don't know, crypto founder or something, and like, he's a very small, like, lean company, he's just like, oh, yeah, like, let's just hop on Rust if we want to, like, hash this…
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 35:35 Zach Lloyd It was built in Rust.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 3:28 Jeff Huber Chrome is written in Rust.
- ▶ 53:13 Shawn Wang Rust, like, like, you know, like Linux kernel, what are we talking here? 6 times in the scene
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 33:09 unnamed speaker It made me think about, we have Brad Taylor on the podcast, and we talked about how certain languages have inner end capabilities, like Rust is memory safe, and so that just happens.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 51:54 Amjad Masad Perhaps it is not as impactful right now on writing Rust code or C or go whatever as it is on
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. 3 times in the scene
The end of Microsoft Excel's 40-Year Dominance? (Shortcut AI is INSANE)
- ▶ 36:47 unnamed speaker Just like I code in, like, Rust sometimes, and I really don't know Rust, but, like, I know enough of the patterns, and I trust AI selectively enough to, to do it. 2 times in the scene
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 12:57 Shawn Wang It's basically Python married with Rust.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 13:53 Zach Lloyd Warp's built in Rust, by the way, which is why you're seeing Rust code here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:49 Ben Holmes And sure enough, Forbes seems fine at holding Swift or Rust or Go or anything you're trying.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 15:34 Chris Lattner So it's like tens of thousands of times faster than Python, and it's in the Python family. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:42 Chris Lattner Like, but if you want a replacement for Rust end to end, then give us six months.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Chris Lattner And again, this comes back to the rewrite and rust and things like this.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
- ▶ 40:31 unnamed speaker In production, the code is in Rust.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 17:36 Mike Krieger Um, some rust now, but it's not, you know, we're not like a TypeScript shop.
Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- ▶ 0:45 Matt Turck But we also zoom out and talk about startup building, what it really takes to trash seven years of code and start over on Rust, the two home runs rule for making money in open source.
- ▶ 15:23 Evan Kaplan That was, so those are the four things that drove it, and I think if Paul were up here, he would talk about the value of Rust. 2 times in the scene
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 2:23 Nathan Sobo And we've essentially engineered an entire editor from an empty repo to up to about over a half a million lines of rust.
- ▶ 3:10 Antonio Scandurra And, you know, it's written in Rust, but also that is collaborative.
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:03 Tom Blomfield I've had other friends have less success with languages like Rust or Elixir, where there's just not as much training data online.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 32:59 Bret Taylor So for example, uh, you know, Rust is an example of a programming language that was designed for safety, not for programming convenience.
- ▶ 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…
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 1:09:24 Evan Conrad Yeah, so all Rust, most all of our code base is in Rust, but we're not necessarily just looking for, like, Rust engineers, um, we're specifically looking for, like, Linux-y people. 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.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 17:17 Thomas Dohmke We have the machine language layer, you know, which is Python or Ruby or Rust, right?
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
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.
No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 40:17 Bret Taylor I mean, how much C code can we rewrite in rust and make it safe so that there's fewer security vulnerabilities? 10 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 3:36 Samuel Colvin There will be a V three at some point, which will not break people's code half as much as V two, as in V two was the, was the massive rewrite into rust, but also fixing all the stuff that was broken back from like version zero point… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:39 Samuel Colvin And then beginning of 22, I started working on the rewrite in Rust, basically. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Samuel Colvin Like Pydantic AI, I will put my hand up now and say it has a lot of generics, and you need to, it's probably easier to use it if you've written a bit of rust and you really understand generics, but
- ▶ 20:20 Shawn Wang I mean, the, the nice thing is that your binary is really written in Rust, right? 2 times in the scene
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
- ▶ 6:08 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Uh, so, CeruleeDB, the entirety of CeruleeDB is built in Rust.
- ▶ 10:42 Matt Turck But, um, we started talking about Rust, and I think at some point there was a rewrite in Rust. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:26 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock So we're built in Rust, but being able to, uh, ensure that users authenticate to the database correctly.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 49:23 Sam Schillace If you can pound out a lot of Python or Rust or whatever it is,
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 21:44 Guillermo Rauch You look at Rust in early days, it had Servo, which was the
Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
- ▶ 14:07 Matt Turck So, uh, I can tell Munab, hey, find me a, um, you know, a, a Rust developer that looks a little bit like, like this, um, and I can show the profile of my best Rust developer. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 31:46 Guillermo Rauch We saw this with Rust and Cargo.
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 3:17 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock As an embedded database, so being able to run that within Python, within Rust, within C, and query your data locally, but also importantly, as a cloud database,
- ▶ 20:24 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock And then as Jamie mentioned at the beginning, we decided to rewrite the whole thing in Rust because that gave us the guarantees
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- ▶ 17:53 Ben Williams A JavaScript developer just won't care if you support Golang or Rust, but will absolutely care if a key feature like automated package upgrades just isn't available for their ecosystem.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 47:22 Avichal Garg By having multiple ways to write code, whether it's Rust or TypeScript that will compile down, by building something like Aurora, which is an L two that's EVM compatible, Ethereum virtual machine compatible to allow people to write code,…
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 26:54 Fabrice Grinda I'm learning to code in Solidity and Rust, and it's hard, but it's interesting.
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 42:23 Alex Gluchowski (Alex G) Uh, because we made zinc, uh, based on rust and it, it was actually a simplified form of rust. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:46 Arjun Narayan Led a project to build a next generation stream processor, which he then developed as an open source project called Timely Dataflow that he had written, um, in Rust, which back then was, was still a programming language that was under…
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 5:26 Chris Dixon And what that means is now that all the blockchains are supporting WASM, that means that all of these, these compilers that are built from other programming languages, um, you know, Python, Rust, whatever, pick your favorite language, you…
A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 12:03 Zach Sherman Um, Rust is actually something we're really excited about.