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Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, argues the biggest gains in AI don't come from faster chips, they come from software-hardware co-design. Optimizing the model, the kernels, a…
(0:00) Gavin Baker and Travis Kalanick join the show! (1:05) Mamdani-endorsed socialists sweep congressional primaries in NYC (22:51) Future of the Democratic Party, the Israel is…
Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic (overseeing Boris Cherny and the entire engineering and PM team). Before Anthropic, she spent 11 years at Mic…
Mukund Jha is the co-founder and CEO of Emergent, a platform that lets anyone without programming knowledge build, ship, and monetize real software by chatting with an AI agent. L…
In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI a…
Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses. They'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scr…
The built world runs on software older than some of the engineers using it. We wrote 2500 words about why, and now we’re backing…
In 1990, Marc Rowan walked out of Drexel with his belongings in a cardboard box. Within a year, Apollo was managing $6 billion. David Haber speaks with Marc Rowan, Cofounder, CEO,…
Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30 people i…
We are at an incredibly exciting and consequential moment for AI. Join Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis ...
Learn about Stripe products designed for revenue growth. More information: https://stripesessions.com Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy…
Jake Stauch, founder and CEO of Serval, is building a ServiceNow for the AI era. His most contrarian bet is that the product should look like boring old enterprise software, but w…
1993 (This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) Arc 's name.--> It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a progr…
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way. Algol…
There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the least excited about it. My own feeling is that object-oriented programming is a useful…
In this episode of Founder FAQ, we asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like Greptile, Firecrawl, Recall.ai, about the state of AI agents and the future of software engin…
Yesterday we heard from Seema Amble with Is Software Losing Its Head? , today we continue on the same topic with this piece from Gio, S…
Is software losing its head? Last month Salesforce announced it would open its APIs and launch a headless product, essentially betting…
Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK — handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of thei…
Conductor is a Mac app that lets you run multiple coding agents at the same time. Create an isolated copy of your codebase in one click, tell Claude or Codex to go work, and revie…
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmp…
When you fill a prescription, the inventory system that tracked that drug from manufacturer to pharmacy was almost certainly running on…
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't writt…
Everything Stripe launched at Sessions 2026 in 12 minutes. More information: https://stripesessions.com Full keynote: https://youtube.com/live/e13-s0p1tfE Developer keynote: https…
Learn how Stripe is making products legible to agents, building deterministic tools so agent actions are predictable and auditable, and designing auth and safety patterns that kee…
Learn about Stripe products designed for revenue growth. More information: https://stripesessions.com Developer keynote: https://youtube.com/live/-vRY2dtD7iQ Indexing the economy…
Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed…
Workday is arguably the most important and least loved product in enterprise software. More than 10,000 organizations run it, tens of m…
Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, is one of the very few people in the world who has successfully built and scaled a lasting consumer social product. Snapchat has near…
We’re excited to welcome Lisha Li to the a16z Infra team. See her announcement here . -AD Software ate the world Obviously, we…
Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, building one of the most important AI products of this generation. Before joining Anthropic, Cat spent years as…
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Alex Modon, cofounder and CEO at Unlimited Industries, and Davide Asnaghi, CEO at Diode Computers, about how AI is moving from software into the phys…