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"I have non-technical CEO friends who are going all in on OpenClaw. They're automating entire parts of their businesses"
"I'm up till 2 3:00 a.m. every single night running four conductor simultaneous workers with Claude Code"
"I've been really addicted to this new site called Moltbook, where people have unleashed their AIs to interact in the first ever AI agent-only online community"
"I go on, you know, Perplexity and it's like, you know what, like you shouldn't be using that model"
"Bug fixing is just going to Sentry copy markdown."
"We've actually avoided hiring a design person at the company so far by just leveraging Magic Patterns and our engineering team uses that to build all front-end designs."
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"if you compare it to like SendGrid which is the old school I suppose web 2.0 example SendGrid example is not great. It it's just like it puts you through customer support"
"it chose Whisper V1, which is a model from several years ago. Like, the API is practically deprecated... It was like literally takes an hour to process an hour of video"
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"I have non-technical CEO friends who are going all in on OpenClaw. They're automating entire parts of their businesses"
"I go on, you know, Perplexity and it's like, you know what, like you shouldn't be using that model"
"I've been really addicted to this new site called Moltbook, where people have unleashed their AIs to interact in the first ever AI agent-only online community"
"I'm up till 2 3:00 a.m. every single night running four conductor simultaneous workers with Claude Code"
"Bug fixing is just going to Sentry copy markdown."
"We've actually avoided hiring a design person at the company so far by just leveraging Magic Patterns and our engineering team uses that to build all front-end designs."
"it chose Whisper V1, which is a model from several years ago. Like, the API is practically deprecated... It was like literally takes an hour to process an hour of video"
"If you're excited about building the frontier of finance, apply to YC"
"If you're building a stable coin, I would highly recommend applying to Y Combinator."
"I met Ogazan and David way back in 2017 when they applied to YC."
"If you're working in the space, YC would love to hear from you."
"YC's next batch is now taking applications got a startup in Apply at y combinator.com/apply"
"Mintlify actually powers the Resend documentation... documentation is sort of shifting from a hey like some companies it's like they'll pay attention to it if they're especially like design developer experience focused but now it's becoming like a must have for everybody"
"You should be using Groq with a Q. It's literally 200 times faster... and it's also 10x cheaper"
"Supabase has just seen like an explosion the demand for databases right and the agents are choosing Supabase as a default tool to like set up and host their PostgreSQL database"
"when you ask a question on ChatGPT or Claude or pretty much all of the major LLMs you ask how do I connect my web app to send emails the default answer is actually Resend"
"There's a YC company called Agent Mail that makes inboxes for AI agents... once OpenClaw got big is just like exploded"
"If you haven't tried Claude Code in the last month, it's time to give it another shot. And if you have, you know what I'm talking about. It feels like AGI is here."
"Is this similar to the Tesla super secret plan the three-step plan to go from like the Roadster to the like Model 3?"
"You it can just connect to your oven or your Tesla or your lights, your Sonos, my bed."
"Every molecular diagnostics approach here requires in the lab using a process called PCR to amplify this DNA billions of fold."
"His latest project is NDIA, a lab exploring a new paradigm in frontier AI research"
"we actually at the founders of poetic that came and spoke about the approach"
"founder of the ARK Prize, a global competition to solve the ARC AGI benchmark"
"congrats on the launch of Arc AGI V3"
"You were the creative at KAS before even all the other frameworks became very popular"
"I worked with a company in the winter 26 batch called Confluence Labs which actually ended up saturating the V2 results with 97%"
"Tom Brown had to write like the harness code to allow like the preGPT AI at OpenAI to play Starcraft"
"that second thing sounds like Douglas Lenat's like psyc project"
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho"
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho, Groww"
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho, Groww, and Emergent"
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay"
"we've got a bunch of YC companies that have submitted their websites that were all built with AI coding tools"
"which you sold to Notion a while back"
"Raphael was the co-founder of Kron, a modern calendar tool, which you sold to Notion a while back"
"I remember when you first came out with your paper in December of last year, uh you shot to the top of ARC-AGI V2 and then you've done this a bunch of times for other benchmarks too."
"So recently you guys just announced some incredible results for humanity's last exam. Can you tell us more about those?"
"I think what will happen is coding will be generally solved for everyone."
"if you think back a year ago, we were talking about Cursor versus WindSurf and like that product experience was essentially like advanced autocomplete"
"It was like the IDEs, Cursor, Windsurf taking off."
"when you ask a question on ChatGPT or Claude or pretty much all of the major LLMs"
"when I asked Compliance to let us use ChatGPT, I didn't even get a response"
"if you think back a year ago, we were talking about Cursor versus WindSurf and like that product experience was essentially like advanced autocomplete"
"It was like the IDEs, Cursor, Windsurf taking off."
"Has anybody built like Twilio for agents yet? Or like phone numbers for agents?"
"At Anthropic, the way that we thought about it is we don't build for the model of today, we build for the model 6 months from now."
"A company that succeeds in building this capability could define the next AI foundation model on the scale of OpenAI or Anthropic."
"The terminal is actually one of the most beautiful terminal apps out there and is actually written with React terminal."
"Several years ago, my friend Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling and Zenefits, coined the term compound startup"
"The phrase 20x company was actually coined by the founders of Giga ML, which builds voice-based customer service agents for enterprise"
"So Atlas can basically do anything within the product which you want to do. So it can use browsers, it can edit the policies, it can write code, it can do anything within the product."
"Legion Health, which is building an AI native psychiatry network, is one example of how to do this."
"Phase Shift, which is building agents to automate accounts receivable, took this approach."
"When we got DoorDash as a customer, we were approximately like four to five engineers going against players who had 100x engineers."
"Several years ago, my friend Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling and Zenefits, coined the term compound startup"
"You it can just connect to your oven or your Tesla or your lights, your Sonos, my bed."
"A company that succeeds in building this capability could define the next AI foundation model on the scale of OpenAI or Anthropic."
"We've seen hints of this digital government in places like Estonia, but we need to spread it to the rest of the world."
"if you compare it to like SendGrid which is the old school I suppose web 2.0 example SendGrid example is not great. It it's just like it puts you through customer support"