Daily Brief

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgOfiZOWiY Me on twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp

Paul Bakaus once turned the entire web orange. He wrote jQuery UI, shipped an orange default theme, assumed people would change it, and watched them not. So when he points out that the purple gradients everyone learned to mock came from a CSS framework's default sample page, and that AI generated design now has its own house shade of beige, he speaks as the cause rather than the critic. That history is what makes his central claim land. A ban does not produce originality, it relocates the model one cluster over: forbid one overused font and it reaches for the next nearest thing in latent space

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgOfiZOWiY Me on twitter: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp

Databricks had $1.5M in revenue and a board interviewing outside CEOs. Ali Ghodsi on why a16z picked him anyway, and the trial run nobody told him about.

From helping build instruction-following models at OpenAI to spending years trying to answer why AI can solve extraordinarily hard problems yet still automate so little real work, Diogo Almeida is betting that the next wave of AI won’t look like chat. In this episode, the TypeSafe founder and CEO joins swyx days after Jev’s breakout launch to explain System One Models: machine-native AI designed for code, calibrated decisions, reliability, and intelligence per dollar. We go deep on Jev and RLCD, the failure modes of RLHF, why TypeSafe refuses to optimize around public benchmarks, and why Diog

Confido (YC S21) is building the AI workforce for consumer brands, automating everything from accounting to sales and demand planning. They work with brands like Olipop and Dude Wipes, as well as divisions of Mars and Unilever, and recently raised a $55 million Series B led by Insight. In this episode of Founder Firesides, Confido co-founders Justin Hunter and Kara Holinski join YC’s Diana Hu to discuss escaping pivot hell, landing their first customer with a Figma prototype, and winning seven-figure deals for AI that does the work. They also explain how they build without product managers.

From inventing textbook machine learning algorithms to winning an Academy Award and discovering two asteroids, John Platt has spent his career at the intersection of computation and science. In this episode, the Google Fellow joins Latent Space to unpack how AI can accelerate scientific discovery, what it takes to turn a research problem into something an agent can optimize, and why better models still need scientists who know how to avoid fooling themselves. We go deep on Google’s Empirical Research Assistance (ERA): an AI research system that grew out of an attempt to automate Kaggle, combi

法治建设，它不可能一蹴而就，无法毕其功于一役，法治的每一个进步背后都有许多沉甸甸的故事，这些故事不应该被人遗忘，因为牢记历史就是为了避免重蹈覆辙。 参考文献： 1.陈永生，我国刑事误判问题透视———以20起震惊全国的刑事冤案为样本的分析，中国法学2007年第3期 2.对我国死刑复核程序之检讨———以中国古代及国外的死刑救济制度为视角，陈永生，比较法研究2004年第4期。