We're using old software development techniques to build these features and we're not actually taking full advantage of what AI can do. I think the promise of AI for many of us is that it allows us to build software that the user can program to do whatever they want using only natural language. Steve Jobs describes software as a sort of as a bicycle for the mind. This feels like I don't know like a rocket ship for the mind. [Music] Welcome to another episode of The Breakdown. Today we're lucky to have Pete ...

Most humans are not rational about their finances. Questions like how much should I save for the future. Where should I invest my money to take the right risk for me.And how should I think about debt and taxes. How you answer these questions today will impact your freedom to do the things you want in the future. Until today, the way to answer these questions have been asking friends, Googling, sometimes hiring a financial adviser, or maybe even asking your bank.These options aren't great. They're filled wit ...

I want to meet teams who can help me process my inbox with just my voice. You see, every day I drive to work for 20 minutes and every day I wish I could be using that time to triage my emails or draft replies or delegate scheduling. What if we could all arrive at work each day already at inbox zero.If you've already used things like Vappy Retail or even chatbt advanced voice mode, you know how good these voice agents are today. The use cases are far bigger than just driving. I know firsthand.It took me expe ...

software engineering jobs of today I think will not exist in five or 10 years. I think there will be demand for smart people who know how to wrangle these AI coding machines and if we want to call those people software engineers like so be it but I think the job is dramatically dramatically different. I think what's interesting here people have strong reactions when they think oh the job that I do or my friends do might go away.It's a very scary proposition, but if you look backwards at history, the first c ...

At YC, we want to fund more AI research labs. Many people don't realize this, but YC was the first investor in Open AI. In fact, OpenAI began life as YC research, our in-house research lab.OpenAI pioneered the concept of independent AI research labs, and we have had a front row seat to the entire journey. While OpenAI is doing incredible work, there are many unsolved problems in AI and still plenty of opportunity for new research labs. Sometimes people think that to do YC you have to be able to ship a produ ...

Soon, all companies will have one thing in common. Every employee will build their own agents to automate the repetitive parts of their jobs. We'd like to fund founders working on the infrastructure they'll use to do that.Internal agent builders. An internal agent builder is a tool that I can use to create an agent to handle mundane tasks I don't like doing. This infrastructure will need to access every other piece of software I use in my day-to-day.It'll need to manage permissions and send sensitive data s ...

Robotics hasn't had its Jad GPT moment yet, but we think it is almost here. Everyone has known that robots are the future, but that proved elusive because previous generations of robots were expensive, brittle, and only worked in control conditions. With the rapid improvements in foundation models, it is finally possible to make robots that have human level perception and judgment.That has been the missing piece. While consumer use case feature heavily in science fiction, some of the overlooked and most imm ...