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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:06 Jeff Dean That turns out to be really useful for machine learning inference, even though it can't run Chrome or Word or whatever.

Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:31 Blake Scholl Imagine a whole bunch of engineering specialists, each working in an Excel spreadsheet on their own discipline, and then handing off the results of analysis from one engineer to another.
  • ▶ 36:56 Blake Scholl In the 19 seventies, Bill said his goal for Microsoft was to put a personal computer in every home and on every desk running Microsoft software. 3 times in the scene

Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:45 Garry Tan I was like, this is not usable for QA, but I had heard that Microsoft had released playwright, which is sort of, um, an alternative testing framework. 2 times in the scene

Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator Apr 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:48 Amjad Masad And coding agents turned to be a workaround and hack because a lot of things that you could do in front of the computer, you could do with code, including, you know, scripting an Excel sheet, right? 2 times in the scene

Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator Jan 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:37 Tom Feldman We looked at a lot of those, and a lot of it was, you know, a bunch of PowerPoint stuff that didn't seem like it had a very bright future, and we were certainly both hardware people, and so we kind of understood what it would take to take… 2 times in the scene
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