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2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2024 by Steve Ruiz · said 56 times in 28 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shawn Wang (25), Vivek Ravisankar (2), Stay Sassy EM (2), Michelle Pokrass (2), Alessio Fanelli (2), Thorsten Ball (1), Steve Ruiz (1), Saoud (Saud) Rizwan (1)

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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy Apr 13, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 1:46
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO Jul 8, 2026 · 1 mention · from 9:54
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention · from 14:05
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2025 27 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode

2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents Jan 1, 2025 · 5 mentions · from 1:55
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R) Jul 28, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 1:43:07
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents Feb 28, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 25:00
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank Nov 8, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 23:19
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes Sep 25, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 58:47
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith Mar 14, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 1:12:50
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents Nov 10, 2025 · 1 mention · from 5:05
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave) Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention · from 16:55
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2024 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode

Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE Dec 13, 2024 · 3 mentions · from 5:57
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API Sep 17, 2024 · 2 mentions · from 1:45
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024) Oct 4, 2024 · 1 mention · from 3:09
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind Aug 28, 2024 · 1 mention · from 33:44
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate Feb 28, 2024 · 1 mention · from 1:11:10
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw Jan 5, 2024 · 1 mention · from 16:25
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2023 16 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode

Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai Sep 20, 2023 · 9 mentions · from 22:02
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind Nov 3, 2023 · 6 mentions · from 0:38
FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact Aug 3, 2023 · 1 mention · from 51:25
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Jan 5, 2024 positive

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Ruiz: tldraw Hit #1 on Hacker News and 40K Users on Launch Day

“There was like number one on Hacker News for a while. It was like the top trending repo on GitHub. A lot of people get, like, 40,000 people showed up at teilder.com to use it on that launch date.”

Steve Ruiz Jan 5, 2024 ▶ 16:24 The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw

Apr 13, 2026

Assertion Supported

Stay Sassy Hit Hacker News Front Page 5 to 10 Times Annually Early On

“And we had in his very early days, maybe like Five to 10 posts a year that we get like front page. And that was a huge sort of boost to our kind of early growth of the blog.”

Stay Sassy EM Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 1:52 ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy

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