Steven Sinofsky

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The a16z Show · AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

That's the job.

then that turns out to be a really

again, all of these things, I was young once.

And I remember sitting in a room going, yeah, our software, it's not like mainframe software.

And all the little IBM people were looking at us saying, you know, your software is really crappy.

Like all of your, like you, Windows is just like crap compared to these IBM things that run all the banks and all the airlines and all the power plants.

And for a long time, we kept looking at them saying, no, you don't understand.

We're different.

This is all new and cool.

And we run on 64K, not one megabyte.

And we cost $5,000, not $5 million.

And we had all of these reasons to claim that our bugs were okay.

in terms of bugs.

And in terms of all we had to do was grow up and watch people use Excel to decide how do planes fly, use Word to file briefs in the Supreme Court, use PowerPoint to present the Challenger space shuttle failure.

But like once you use your tools for that.

And so one of the things that happened was the very first internet worm happened.

So the internet then is like people using America Online and sending email and stuff like that.

There's very little corporate email.

But it turns out there was just enough that if somebody used Outlook, Word, and internet email all together, they could grind the entire United States and world economy to a halt.

And that's literally what happened in March of 1998.

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