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Y Combinator's podcast features conversations with founders, investors, and experts on building successful startups and navigating the tech industry.
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Mar 27, 2026•57m•10 insights•5 min read
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
- •The surprising reason why scaling alone won't get us to AGI: 'Deep learning scaled 50,000x but still scored under 10% on this benchmark'
- •His brutal prediction: AGI arriving in early 2030s—around the time they release ARC 6 or 7
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Mar 17, 2026•39m•10 insights•5 min read
The Startup From India Helping Everyone Build Apps
- •7 million apps built in 8 months—the fastest-growing YC company ever
- •They turned down VCs who called their original idea 'too crazy'—then pivoted to something bigger
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Mar 10, 2026•53m•10 insights•5 min read
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces
- •The first people to live to 1,000 years old are probably alive right now—and it might be way more people than you think
- •40+ people have already received a brain implant that gives them their sight back—published in New England Journal of Medicine
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Mar 6, 2026•37m•10 insights•5 min read
Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites
- •The 'dumb hover effect' epidemic: Why LLMs are infecting every startup website with animations no human would ever code
- •Purple gradients everywhere—how one good design gets trained into LLMs and suddenly every site looks identical within a week
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Feb 18, 2026•50m•10 insights•5 min read
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny
- •The $40M bet that coding will be 'solved' for everyone within months - and why software engineers might become obsolete
- •How Claude Code accidentally became the tool writing 90% of Anthropic's code - without anyone planning it
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