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Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

We're entering a new era of software where a single person, working with AI agents, can build products that previously required entire teams.In this episode of Lightcone, the hosts break down the rise of AI coding agents, "tokenmaxxing", and the emerging workflows behind tools li ...  Show more

 . 41min 29sec
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That's what recursive reasoning unlocks.In this episode of Decoded, YC's Ankit Gupta and Francois Chaubard break down two recent papers on recursive AI models, HRMs and TRMs, that ...  Show more

 . 37min 52sec
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD in neuroscience and going on to found DeepMind. His lab cracked Go, solved protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, and then ...  Show more

 . 40min 56sec
The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers

Replit is the leading no-code app builder for consumers and enterprise, letting anyone with an idea build real, deployed software using natural language. The company just raised a $400 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation.In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founder and ...  Show more

 . 39min 11sec
The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

AI isn't just making teams more productive. It's changing how companies should be built.In this episode of Startup School, YC Partner Diana Hu explains what it means to build an AI-native company, where AI isn't just a tool but the operating system your company runs on.She breaks ...  Show more

 . 10min 27sec