Jeff Dean

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

And you kind of want to view your engineering or research career as you have an amazing tool belt of techniques.

And you always want to be adding new tools to that tool belt because you never know when you might come across a problem where you need these four specialized tools rather than these three.

And adding more tools makes it more likely that the problems you encounter in the future will be solvable by you.

Oh.

Yeah.

I mean, I think there's a lot of interesting problems in the world and I'll just rattle off a few.

This is not exhaustive because the world is a very big place and full of problems.

You know, I'm particularly excited about new approaches to hardware.

You know, we've had thought experiment there was kind of, you know, a, you know, a,

indication of that or much more efficient inference hardware.

I think there are radically different kinds of algorithms for machine learning that might be much more data efficient than the approaches we're using today.

If you think about our large scale models today, they probably see a thousand times as much data as a human does by the age of 18.

Yet the human by the age of 18 is better in a lot of things and on par

with those frontier models that have seen way more data.

So could you come up with much more data efficient systems that can learn continuously, learn from their own actions?

Continual learning is a really interesting thing.

I think multi-agent interactions is an interesting thing.

You know, I think, you know, creating ways of having better discourse among people in the world could be interesting.

Are there ways to have much more civil conversations and, you know, helping people meet other people all over the world that they should know based on their interests?

You know, these are kind of interesting things, I think.

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