Diana Hu

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322 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

What becomes the scarce skill?

So let's talk a bit more about taste because it gets talked a lot about right now in this current era with agent decoding.

How do you exactly build taste and do that?

I mean, yeah, that sounds so esoteric.

How do you make it concrete?

I think a third way we were talking earlier was doing very crazy thought experiments.

You don't want any bits to flip.

That is so wild.

I mean, it's starting to rhyme a lot with neuromorphic computing or the human brain and how nature works.

What is, I mean, you have such an impressive career.

What is one of these crazy assumptions that you threw out of the window that actually built a consequential system in the past?

That's impressive.

So this thought experiment led you to create MapReduce.

Awesome.

Now let's go back to, you talked a bit about your interest right now in working on a lot of customized hardware.

So right now, Alpha Chip lays out chips.

Now you also got Alpha Evolve that proposes solutions, evaluates them, and keeps all the ones that work.

Seems like you're starting to build all these systems that can compound and build AI that builds AI.

That sounds awesome.

I mean, it sounds like a lot of fields basically where you can have very good evaluators and maybe adjacent to basically things that can be formally verified, right?

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