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Apr 3
1h 17m

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent ...

Andreessen Horowitz
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This episode originally aired on the Latent Space Podcast. swyx and Alessio Fanelli speak with Marc Andreessen about the arc of AI from its origins in 1943 to today's breakthroughs in reasoning, coding agents, and self-improvement. They cover the parallels between AI scaling laws and Moore's Law, the architectural insight behind Claude Code and the Unix shel ... Show More
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