Python
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2019 by Michael Babineau · said 41 times in 24 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 15 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
- We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
- François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 11 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Joan Lasenby on Applications of Geometric Algebra in Engineering · Y Combinator
- Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator
- Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Python, oldest first
May 29, 2019
Data science tools can be taught on the job, but math cannot
“It's our view that if you come in with that, that strong that strong, like, you know, mathy foundation, that learning the tools, like, the tools can be taught, right? We can, like, we're happy to help to help people get onboarded with, like, using Python. Like…”
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Heller: Casetext built CoCounsel with plain Python, dismissing frameworks like LangChain
“And to be honest, a lot of the stuff that we built while building co-council was exactly like this. Every time you do this task, you're basically gonna take the same six or seven steps. And you don't need to have, frankly, like fucking Langchain or whatever. J…”
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Dean: Code translation is an ideal AI use case due to existing tests
“A use of a coding agent that works extremely well, is you can ask today's models to translate software from one computer language to another very effectively, because in that case, you actually have a incredibly detailed specification. You have the whole softw…”