Python
also referred to as: python code
32 statements across 28 episodes · 16 bullish · 7 bearish · 27 people on the record · first statement Oct 27, 2023 by Artem Keydunov · said 324 times in 107 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (47), Samuel Colvin (28), Chris Lattner (18), Bret Taylor (12), Jeremy Howard (11), Alessio Fanelli (10), Gorkem Yurtseven (7), Eric Ries (7)
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2026 53 mentions in 20 episodes 3 per episode
- ⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
- AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
- AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
- ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 183 mentions in 54 episodes 3 per episode
- Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- A Technical History of Generative Media
- ⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ⚡️Factorio Learning Environment: the ultimate Game Agent Eval — Jack Hopkins
- 46 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 74 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
- A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- [Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
- How To Hire AI Engineers (ft. James Brady and Adam Wiggins of Elicit)
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Python, oldest first
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Keydunov: Production AI data apps require extensive Python scaffolding around models
“When we're talking about production level use cases, it's quite a lot of Python code around, you know, like, your model to make it work, to be honest. It's, like, It's not that magic that you just throw the model in it, like it can give you all this answers. F…”
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Apr 27, 2024 positive
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Brady: Elicit uses checked exceptions in Python to handle edge cases
“We use checked exceptions inside our Python code base, which means that we can use the type system to make sure we are handling, properly handling, all of the various things that could be going wrong, all the different exceptions that could be getting raised. …”
Jun 21, 2024 neutral
Brady: Elicit generates TypeScript types from Python OpenAPI specs instead of GraphQL
“We don't use GraphQL. So we've got the types defined in Python. That's the source of truth. And we go from the open API spec and there's a tool that you can use to generate types dynamically, like TypeScript types from those opening API definitions.”
Jun 25, 2024 negative
Albrecht: Unsynchronized garbage collection across distributed nodes steadily degrades cluster MFU
“Because you have hundreds of machines, they're doing garbage collection at slightly different times, and then they get slightly further apart, and slightly more and more jittered, until eventually they're all happening kind of at random times, and just, like, …”
Aug 28, 2024 positive
Carlini: LLMs decompile obscure binaries into readable Python code
“It can turn the compiled source code, which is impossible for any human to understand into the Python code that is entirely reasonable to understand. And, you know, it doesn't run. It has a bunch of problems, but like, it's so much nicer that it's immediately …”
Sep 21, 2024 negative
Oct 11, 2024
Dec 25, 2024 positive
Neubig: Arbitrary Python Execution Beats Individual Agent Tool Calls
“And the method that we adopt in open hands instead is we provide these tools, but we provide them by just giving a coding agent the ability to call arbitrary Python code. And in the arbitrary Python code, it can call these tools. We expose these tools as APIs …”
Jan 4, 2025 negative
Comfyanonymous: PyTorch Lacks Fine-Grained Memory Control for Complex Pipelines
“The problem with PyTorch is it's high levels. Don't have that much fine-grained control over, like specific memory stuff, so kind of have to leave, like, the memory freeing to Python and PyTorch, which is, can be annoying sometimes.”
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Colvin: Pydantic and FastAPI normalized Python type-hint schemas
“Back in 2017, when I first started it, the like different thing it was doing was using type int to define your schema. That was controversial at the time. It was like genuinely disapproved of by some people. I think the success of Pydantic and libraries like f…”
Feb 6, 2025 bullish
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 …”
Feb 11, 2025 negative
Bret Taylor Mocks Using AI to Write Unsafe, Slow Python Code
“I think that we're bringing the cost of writing code down to zero. So the fact that we're still writing Python with AI cracks me up just cause it's like literally was designed to be ergonomic to write, not, not safe to run or fast to run.”
Mar 7, 2025 neutral
The Fundamental Language of AI Will Likely Remain Python
“The things that language models understand best tend to be the kind of piece of code that are represented on the internet. You know, maybe I don't think a lot of people would be happy with this, that maybe the kind of fundamental language of AI becomes Python …”
Mar 14, 2025 neutral
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Shah: The AI industry does not need a new language to replace Python
“He was talking about like, oh, we need a different language than Python or whatever that is like built for built for AI and built. It's like, No, Brett, I don't think we do actually. It's just fine. It deals with just fine, just expressive enough. And it's nic…”
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Mlejnsky remains bullish on JavaScript and web developers driving AI adoption
“I still remain very bullish web developers and JavaScript world, TypeScript world, even though we have, like, a ton of usage from Python but there's so many web developers, and it's easier and easier to use LLMs. I really think that you need to cater to these …”
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Jun 10, 2025 bearish
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Nov 1, 2025 positive
Feb 24, 2026 negative
Mar 14, 2026 bullish
Colvin: Monty executes Python in single-digit microseconds
“I mean, in a hot loop, we can run, we can go from code to execution result in under a microsecond in like 800 nanoseconds. In reality, it's like single digit microseconds to run code or single digit microseconds to run the next step of a REPL or single digit m…”
Mar 14, 2026 positive
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Rieseberg: Users will not scrutinize AI-generated scripts in daily workflows
“Because I kind of believe that 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.”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Singleton: TypeScript is the optimal language for AI-driven development
“TypeScript is an amazing language for AI because there's tons of training data. In the models and it's strongly typed. And actually at the company, we built most of the stack in TypeScript, and we have this amazing property, which is we have type safety all th…”
May 7, 2026 neutral
Jun 3, 2026 positive
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…”
Jun 22, 2026 neutral
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…”