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Cherny: Bun codebase was rewritten to Rust in 11 days using Claude
“And he had the model rewrite it from Zig to Rust. It was one prompt. It was a dynamic workflow, and a dynamic workflows are a feature in quad code that essentially let you orchestrate, you know, dozens, 100,000 of agents to do work productively. And it ran for…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 17:24 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
Fredrikson: Formal software verification takes 10 to 20 times longer than Python
“The reason people don't do it is that it's not easy and it's not fun, right? 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…”
Matt Fredrikson Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 43:10 AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
Hong: Lean and Rust yield superior reinforcement learning convergence over Python
“If you want proof to be informal math, It's very annoying, because then that's, like, just makes objective function. Your code is something like Python, your proof is, say, natural language, math proof. You will not have very strong RL kind of performance, rig…”
Carina Hong Jun 3, 2026 ▶ 30:00 Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Colvin wrote 30,000 lines of Rust for Monty over Christmas using AI
“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.”
Samuel Colvin Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 0:54 ⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
MAD Insight
The Lean theorem prover language is closer to Rust than to English
“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.”
Corinna Hong Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 22:58 AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
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Pope: AI labs apply RL to software code, not chip architecture
“Models are extremely good at Rust and Python. They've done a lot of RL on them. They have not done as much RL on Verilog. They've done almost none on, okay, write, write me a markdown file that describes a chip architecture.”
Reiner Pope Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 45:39 Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
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Yang: SWE-bench Multilingual spans nine languages across roughly 40 repositories
“Yeah, multilingual, it's like nine languages across, like, 40 repos, but yeah, you got them, like, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C, you know, Ruby.”
John Yang Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 1:57 [State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lloyd: Memory-safe languages and automated verification will become more valuable
“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 human reviewer become…”
Zach Lloyd Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 14:41 No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
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Zach Lloyd: Warp acquired 10,000 developer waitlist signups via Hacker News
“And so what we ended up doing instead of that was like basically posting on Hacker News that we were building this new terminal. It was built in Rust. It had all these features. We posted it with a waitlist, just like sign up, give us your email if you're inte…”
Zach Lloyd Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 35:28 He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Huber: Chroma is written in Rust and uses object storage
“Chrome is written in Rust. It's fully multi-tenant. We have, we use object storage as a key Assistance tier and, like, data layer for Chroma distributed in Chroma Cloud as well.”
Jeff Huber Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 3:28 Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
Huber: No AI coding tools are particularly good at Rust
“So far we've still not found that really any AI coding tools are particularly good at rust though.”
Jeff Huber Aug 19, 2025 ▶ 55:54 Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Masad: AI coding is less impactful for Rust, C, and Go than JavaScript and Python
“It is not as impactful right now on writing Rust code or C or go whatever as it is on JavaScript and Python and higher level languages.”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 51:54 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
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Zach Lloyd: Warp relies on over one million lines of Rust code
“Warp is over a million lines of Rust code, and this is like, up until very recently, this type of agentic stuff just did not work in Warp because it's not built on any public UI framework, like we have our own internal UI framework, and so it really needs to u…”
Zach Lloyd Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 13:58 ⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
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Lattner says Mojo is 10,000x faster than Python and beats Rust
“Mojo is not just a little faster than Python, it's faster than Rust. So it's like tens of thousands of times faster than Python, and it's in the Python family.”
Chris Lattner Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 15:29 The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
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Sobo: Zed engineered an editor from scratch to 500,000 lines of Rust
“And we've essentially engineered an entire editor from an empty repo to up to about over a half a million lines of rust.”
Nathan Sobo May 7, 2025 ▶ 2:23 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
NO PRIORS Insight
Dohmke: Programming languages remain the essential deterministic layer below AI prompts
“We have the machine language layer, you know, which is Python or Ruby or Rust, right? Those are effectively abstractions of the chipset and the machine instruction set. And that's the last layer that's deterministic, right? Like programming language inherently…”
Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 17:17 No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dohmke: Future programming languages will be closer to human natural language
“I think there's going to be a next programming language after Python and TypeScript and Rust and Rust in itself, you know wasn't really a thing five years ago. And then, so there's going to be more languages that are probably closer to human language and to be…”
Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 42:45 No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
LATENT SPACE Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2028
Colvin: Rust-native data storage could yield 3x to 5x Pydantic speedup
“We have plans to move some of the, basically store the data in rust types after validation. Not convert to Python types. So then if you were doing like validation and then serialization, you would never have to go via a Python type. We reckon that can give us …”
Samuel Colvin Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 3:50 Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
MAD Assertion Supported
Hitchcock: SurrealDB is built entirely in Rust
“CeruleDB, the entirety of CeruleDB is built in Rust.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 6:08 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
MAD Disclosure
Hitchcock: SurrealDB completely rewrote its original codebase from Golang to Rust
“And so, we made the decision to completely rewrite the entire codebase from Golang into Rust.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 11:57 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
MAD Insight
Hitchcock: Rewriting a database entirely in Rust beats incremental migration
“What you'll see with other databases is they then design parts of it in Rust, and then gradually more and more that becomes Rust over time, and maybe some of it doesn't, but it's much easier when you go forward from the basis of everything is built in Rust.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 12:23 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
MAD Disclosure
SurrealDB rewrote its entire codebase from Go to Rust
“We decided to rewrite the whole thing in Rust because that gave us the guarantees A better language. Performance wasn't really the key, but enabling us to do other things with the language that we just couldn't do and go.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 20:24 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Developers prioritize deep ecosystem features over broad multi-language support
“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.”
Ben Williams Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 17:53 How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Isenberg: On-chain resumes will enable hiring within 60 seconds
“I believe that in the future you'll have your resume on chain, and you'll be able to apply at a job, and then within 60 seconds get that job, because, you know, those people know that you are great at Uniswap, or you understand how to code in Rust, or Solidity…”
Greg Isenberg Apr 21, 2022 ▶ 7:24 From Community Manager to C-Suite | Jiho, Axie Infinity

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