"How do you build superintelligence inside a company? Part of the key thing is not to just use AI as a co-pilot. This is the the thing where you use it as the building layer for everything. And you nee..."

"Today we have a real treat. Uh we have a special guest, general partner at YC, our partner, Pete Koomen. He created Optimizely, which was one of the first and one of the best ways to do AB testing for..."

">> Sure. I'm happy to happy to tell the story here and it's I like framing it that way because it was a project that I and a few engineers got started about a year ago, maybe a little more, but that h..."

"like two or three years ago when LLMs were out, but like agentic coding wasn't the thing yet. And so the first thing actually was not agentic coding, it was LLMs for writing SQL queries. >> Yes. >> So..."

"kind of operating in this really narrow box and I'm at home using Claude coder or whatever like open claw hermie and I can do anything, right? And and and trying to trying to narrow that gap. So why w..."

"Jevons paradox that you get when you remove the amount of back and forth uh between different teams in order to get a thing done, right? If if in order to ans- ask some kind of complex question about ..."

"first things that the Googlers had to figure out was a big table, right? And big table was, you know, instead of schema you and joins, you have one big table that um can be map reduced. Yes. And so, I..."

"the single player era of agents where the harnesses that have gotten really popular, right? Uh Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Open Claw, Hermes. They're all designed to be used by a single human running on a..."

"registry and you know, a few other pieces, right? Like a model router underneath. The tool registry is where most of the like YC specific stuff lives, right? Like tool registry is what turns these age..."

"uh in my agent and then after it does it and I like it I say skillify it and then it becomes basically like a tool call or method call and then I run check resolvable which is like you know look at al..."

"other companies that are building this stuff have built their infrastructure because you see a lot of these same primitives in in each of them, right? Like there's the agent loops, there's tool regist..."

"yeah. >> Sure. So, a two sentence description is a concise way of explaining what your company does in natural language that anyone will understand and why it's interesting. Sounds easy, but it's surp..."

"I mean, this two-sentence pitch thing sounds like something kind of small, but embedded in it is actually something very powerful. I'm sure you guys have heard Jack Dorsey talk about what he's doing w..."

"is one of those things that we talk about um how to build that AI native organization, right? Part of the key thing is not to do just use AI as a co-pilot. I think that's very 2020 three four right? T..."

"us being able to like connect our brains, right? Yeah. >> It totally is, right? And I I can have an agent now come and I can do practice sessions with it, right? I can have it critique. Like there the..."

"like 1,000x superintelligent organizations that I would not have necessarily guessed would exist, but are now like must exist if you want to create this type of organization. You have to be relatively..."

"companies started buying computers for their employees. >> Yeah. They were probably very expensive and probably only certain companies really invested in buying these like expensive, flaky computer sy..."

"built at the time. And to be totally honest, I think a lot of it still falls into this >> It's still like that. Yeah, it didn't change. >> Yes. I just saw a lot of examples of uh companies building so..."

"going around right now about how there's a need to build new interface for like AI and what does that look like. And I think that just comes from people who haven't like touched and felt it yet. Chat ..."

"or or tools that others have built, tend to be very small. And just add kind of the smallest amount of code ahead of time that you need in order to let the model shine. Mhm. And you can build an awful..."

"learned from your essay, uh which is like AI can either be centralizing or decentralizing. And um the Google Gmail like I can't change the prompt thing is like the perfect example of that. We basicall..."

"to your own databases that easily. Um and you know, for what? Safety? Like I would argue Claude is like a little bit more open, but not really. Perplexity is probably the best version of it, but it's ..."