Interview, Explained

In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.

Joe Rogan Experience·

Aravind Srinivas on why cheap cognition makes curiosity priceless

Aravind Srinivas· Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity

When cognition costs the same as compute, value moves to what stays scarce — curiosity and good questions — and Srinivas argues that owning your own AI is how individuals keep that power.

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Lex Fridman Podcast·

Jensen Huang on Why AI Companies Win by Co-Designing the Whole AI Factory

Jensen Huang· CEO of NVIDIA

Jensen Huang reasons from first principles that AI has turned the computer from a retrieval warehouse into a token-generating factory, so NVIDIA now co-designs the entire AI factory instead of just the GPU, riding four compounding scaling laws toward a future he treats as already inevitable.

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No Priors·

Mark Zuckerberg on Turning Biology Into an Engineering Science

Mark Zuckerberg· CEO of Meta

Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Alex Rives on fusing frontier AI with frontier biology to turn biology from a discovery science into an engineering science — and cure all disease this century.

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No Priors·

Noam Brown on Why Reasoning Models Need Budget Curves — Interview, Explained

Noam Brown· Research Scientist at OpenAI

Noam Brown argues that reasoning models must be evaluated as budget curves, because more test-time compute can unlock capabilities that static benchmark grids hide.

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The Circuit·

Dario Amodei on the Smooth Exponential

Dario Amodei· CEO

Why AI progress follows a smooth exponential curve.

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