Jun 02, 2026

The Moonshot Mindset with Adam Savage and Sergey Brin: The Moonshot Podcast

Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin discuss the philosophy of radical innovation, X's unique culture of embracing failure and pressure testing ideas, and their reflections on past moonshots like Google Glass, Wing, and Waymo. They delve into the exponential nature of AI, its historical context, and the challenges of anticipating its future impact, while also highlighting crucial unsolved "white whale" moonshots for humanity, including education, battery technology, and redefining the intrinsic value of work beyond monetary compensation.

May 21, 2026

How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI

YC General Partner Tom Blomfield explains how to move beyond the traditional hierarchical company structure and build a self-improving organization using AI. He introduces the concept of recursive, self-improving AI loops that can optimize a company's operations, products, and knowledge base while the founders sleep.

May 19, 2026

How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI

YC General Partner Tom Blomfield explains how to move beyond the 'copilot' mindset and restructure companies as series of recursive, self-improving AI loops. He details how to make company knowledge legible to AI, creating systems that improve overnight with minimal human intervention, ultimately rendering traditional middle management obsolete.

May 14, 2026

Codex for Everyday Work: AI Agents Beyond Coding

Thibault Sottiaux, Head of Codex at OpenAI, discusses the evolution of Codex from a niche developer tool into a general-purpose agent for knowledge work. He explores how this shift is redefining productivity, team dynamics, and our fundamental relationship with technology.

May 04, 2026

Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, discusses the future of software development at AI Ascent 2026. He argues that coding is effectively a solved problem, detailing his personal workflow of shipping dozens of PRs daily from his phone. Cherny explores the shift from typeahead to autonomous agents, the rise of cross-disciplinary generalist teams, and uses the printing press as an analogy for the coming democratization of software creation for all.

May 01, 2026

Running AI Engineer with AI — swyx

Swyx, co-founder of the AI Engineer conference, reveals how his "tiny team" of nine people leverages AI agents like Cognition's Devin and Town Assistant to manage a multi-million dollar business and organize large-scale events. He shares practical examples of how agents have transformed their workflow, from converting Figma designs to pixel-perfect websites to managing complex conference schedules and even performing personal research tasks, arguing for a future focused on "Agent Experience" (AX).