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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…”
Jake Heller Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 14:16 From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
Insight
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…”
Jeff Dean Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 32:59 Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
French-Owen: OpenAI Codex performs particularly well on Python monorepos
“Codex works very well on Python mono repos.”
Calvin French-Owen Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 42:46 We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
Insight
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…”
Michael Babineau May 29, 2019 ▶ 30:56 Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
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