Lightcone Podcast @LightconePod

Techno optimism for technical founders. Hosted by @garrytan, @snowmaker, @sdianahu, and @harjtaggar. lightconepod.com San Francisco, CA Joined April 2024

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2 weeks ago

Anthropic Co-Founder Tom Brown: Why Anthropic Models Are The Best at Coding "The benchmarks are so easy to game. All the other big AI labs have teams whose job it is to make the benchmark scores good. We don't have such a team. That is the biggest factor." @AnthropicAI's…

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2 weeks ago

Tom Brown (@nottombrown) co-founded Anthropic after helping build GPT-3 at OpenAI. A self-taught engineer, he went from getting a B-minus in linear algebra to becoming one of the key people behind AI's scaling breakthroughs. Today, Anthropic's Claude is the go-to choice for…

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2 months ago

AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months. In…

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3 months ago

Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster. It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from.…

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Harj Taggar @harjtaggar

3 months ago

Prompting AI agents to consistently do what you want is becoming the most important skill for founders to learn and build their companies around. We share some of the more advanced techniques we've learned from founders, and building AI agents ourselves at YC, in the latest…

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3 months ago

At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language models. But over time, it's become critical to the way we interact with AI. On the @LightconePod, Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared break down what they've learned from working with…

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4 months ago

There's never been a better time to start an AI company. Not just because there are new ideas, but because the tech finally makes old ones actually work. On the @LightconePod, @garrytan, @harjtaggar, @sdianahu, and @snowmaker talk through the kinds of startups that are…

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4 months ago

Windsurf Founder: AI Will 10x Every Part of Coding - Faster Than You Think "It's gonna get crazy." "Every part of the software development life cycle, whether it be writing code, reviewing code, testing code, debugging code, designing code, AI is gonna be adding 10X the amount…

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4 months ago

Varun Mohan (@_mohansolo) didn't set out to build one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools. He just knew his company had to change, or die. After initially betting on GPU virtualization, he saw the writing on the wall: if there was a future for his company, it would be at…

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6 months ago

Co-founder disputes can be startup killers— but it doesn't have to be that way. On the @LightconePod, Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana share their experiences navigating co-founder conflict and their advice for how you can manage these challenges at your own startup.

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6 months ago

Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” In this episode of the @LightconePod, the hosts discuss this new way of programming…

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7 months ago

We're in the middle of the AI revolution, and it's transforming business at every level. Aaron Levie (@levie), the co-founder & CEO of Box, joins the @LightconePod to talk about how AI can drive abundance, unlock new possibilities, and change the way companies compete & operate.