Oct 14, 2025

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question

Nathan Labenz joins Erik Torenberg to challenge the narrative that AI progress is slowing down. He argues that despite perceptions around GPT-5, capabilities in reasoning and frontier science are advancing exponentially. They discuss the future of AI agents, the prospect of recursive self-improvement, the impact on jobs, and progress beyond language models into robotics and biology. The conversation culminates in a call for a more imaginative, positive vision to guide AI's trajectory.

Sep 24, 2025

Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie

In a dynamic discussion, experts debate the merits of pricing H-1B visas versus the current lottery system, questioning what the policy should optimize for. They explore the real-world impact of AI on developer productivity, with Box reporting that 30% of its code now comes from AI, and highlight how small, senior teams are achieving superhuman results by shifting from writing code to reviewing it. The conversation also covers why bottom-up, personal AI tools are succeeding where top-down corporate pilots fail, and analyzes the platform shift, arguing that AI-native startups have a unique advantage in a landscape where incumbent scale is being neutralized by AI agents.

Sep 23, 2025

925: AI, Automation and the Future of Work — with Oxford’s Prof. Carl Benedikt Frey

University of Oxford Professor Carl Benedikt Frey discusses his book "How Progress Ends," exploring the mechanics of innovation in different economic systems, the limitations of generative AI for true discovery, and the profound impact of AI on the future of work, job displacement, and the skills needed to thrive.

Sep 18, 2025

Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody

Brendan Foody, CEO of Mercor, discusses the critical role of AI evaluations (evals) in model improvement, detailing how his company achieved unprecedented growth by supplying high-skilled experts to top AI labs. He explores the shift to Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF), the future of work in an AI-driven economy, and why he believes the path to AGI is paved with better evals, not just more data.

Sep 12, 2025

The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, outlines a future where AI agents commoditize traditional software, fundamentally reshaping the economy, the nature of work, and how companies are built. He argues that the focus will shift from building applications to solving problems directly, empowering a new class of 'generalist' employees and 'sovereign individuals'.

Aug 28, 2025

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma, CVP of Product for Microsoft's AI Platform, shares insights from working with over 15,000 companies building AI. She discusses the shift from "product as artifact" to "product as organism," the rise of post-training as the new competitive moat, and how agents are transforming organizational structures from hierarchies ("org charts") into task-based networks ("work charts").