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Published · transcript-backedMartin Casado: belief
19 Feb 2026 Latent Space Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
“Like actually just like be aware of how much of the interaction has nothing to do with coding and it just turns out to be a large portion of it. And so like, you’re, I think like, like the best Soto ish model.”
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- 19 Feb 2026
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…It’s, yeah. I, I think for, for any, it’s hilarious. For any, for anybody listening to this for, for, for, I mean, for you, like when, when you’re like coding or using these models for something like that. Like actually just like be aware of how much of the interaction has nothing to do with coding and it just turns out to be a large portion of it. And so like, you’re, I think like, like the best Soto ish model. You know, it is going to remain very important no matter what the task is. Yeah. Uh, speaking of coding, uh, I, I’m gonna be cheeky and ask like, what actually are you coding? Because obviously you, you could code anything and you are obviously a busy investor and a manager of the good. Giant team. Um, what are you calling?…
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