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14 statements across 11 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2023 by Shawn Wang · said 353 times in 111 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (54), Simon Eskildsen (30), Dylan Patel (19), Brendan Falk (10), Alessio Fanelli (10), Paul Klein (8), Erik Bernhardsson (8), Ivan Burazin (7)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 148 mentions in 37 episodes 4 per episode
- Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
- AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 101 mentions in 39 episodes 3 per episode
- ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- A Technical History of Generative Media
- Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 79 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
- Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
- Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 25 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon, oldest first
Sep 20, 2023 negative
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Patel: AWS holds major infrastructure efficiency advantage over Azure and GCP
“Behind the scenes, they've done a lot on the infrastructure that is super custom, That Microsoft, Azure, and Google Cloud just don't even match in terms of efficiency. Like, if you think about the cost to rent out SSD space, so the cost to rent, you know, offe…”
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Conrad: NVIDIA avoids customer concentration to prevent hyperscaler price setting
“It's really bad for NVIDIA if you have customer concentration, and Microsoft and Google and Amazon, like, Oracle to, like, buy up your entire supply and then you have four or five customers or so who pretty much get to set prices.”
Sep 18, 2025
Falk: Zeus originally targeted Global 2000 companies for $5M-$10M contracts
“And so ended up leaving Amazon, starting this company, Zeus, And, you know, the idea, pretty simple. Number one, we would only go after the global 2000. That was very, very deliberate. Two is we are, we were building very custom software. So the idea was we wa…”
Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
Patel: Nvidia must vastly outperform rivals to overcome vertical integration
“Google, Amazon, they get to vertically integrate, integrate, and vertical integration always saves tons of money. So he has to be better than everyone. By, not just like a little bit, by a ton. To justify his margins. Otherwise, the vertical integration of his…”
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Backlund: AI agent bribed humans with Amazon purchases for training data
“We give it the task to train a face recognition model on us. So it became super excited about this and has like check-ins every half an hour where it tries to like identify as many people as it can. And it started offering us like, Hey, Axel I'll buy something…”
Jun 22, 2026 positive
Jul 11, 2026 positive
Perszyk: Adept negotiated an insulated startup model within Amazon AGI Lab
“Yeah, so I came with the original adept folks, and when we came, we convinced leadership that in order to do frontier level research, we really needed to keep an operating model that was more like a startup. We needed to insulate our research and be able to fo…”