Interview, Explained
In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.
Startup School 2026·
Jeff Dean on why inference hardware is AI's next bottleneck
Jeff Dean· Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
At Y Combinator's Startup School 2026, Jeff Dean argues that as models commoditize the writing of code, the leverage moves down to the systems layer — specialized low-latency inference hardware and the energy cost of moving data — and up to the human skill of taste in choosing what to build.
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Google DeepMind: The Podcast·
Neel Nanda on why AI is grown, not designed
Neel Nanda· Language Model Interpretability Lead at Google DeepMind
Neel Nanda, who leads language-model interpretability at Google DeepMind, explains that modern AI is grown rather than designed, and that reading its mind takes a growing toolkit of cheap, imperfect techniques — no single one a silver bullet.
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