René Brandel invented Kiro at AWS, the fastest adopted Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Technology in history. 100k downloads in just 3 days.

Now he is building Casco: Autonomous Security Testing for Modern Applications which recently raised a Series A at $100M and has gone viral for hacking 7 out of 16 Y Combinator backed AI companies as well as betting any company $20,000 that they can hack their software in under 30 days.

Whether you are a AI startup founder or someone trying to understand where artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley AI Technology is headed, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

• How René and his co-founder hacked 7 out of 16 Y Combinator backed AI startups in under 30 minutes, and what it exposed about AI agent security

• Why AI generates code that's 98% functionally correct but security is still flat or getting worse, and what that means for every startup shipping with AI

• The real story behind AWS Kiro, the fastest adopted IDE in history with 100k downloads in 3 days

• Why Casco is betting $20,000 that they can hack any software company in under 30 days

• Why AI slop is the biggest hidden cost in software right now, and how the best founders are avoiding it

• Casco's long term vision to make all software effortlessly secure

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Sixtyfour.ai founders Saarth Shah and Christopher Price reveal how they shipped their deep research agent before OpenAI, why unemployment could surpass 50% in the next 10 years, and how they are building the central intelligence platform for people and company data.

In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with the founders of Sixtyfour.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup building the orchestration layer for company and people intelligence. From hacking at age 12 and manufacturing fidget spinners in middle school to building AI agents that can track down a business owner from a single Facebook post, Saarth and Christopher share the unfiltered story behind one of the most interesting AI startups right now.

Whether you are a AI startup founder or someone trying to understand where artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley AI Technology is headed, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

• How Sixtyfour.ai beat OpenAI to market by shipping a deep research agent weeks before Deep Research launched
• Why most early stage founders build the wrong thing and how to avoid it
• The wildest use cases for AI agents in people and company intelligence
• What Y Combinator actually teaches founders behind closed doors
• Whether or not AI will push unemployment above 50% within 10 years
• Their long term vision to become the central intelligence platform for people data

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Is AI about to automate the entire software development lifecycle? In this episode, Adam Knees sits down in person with Rakesh Kothari, CEO and Co-Founder of Deductive AI and former VP of Engineering at ThoughtSpot, to discuss why the software industry is being disrupted by AI agents faster than anyone realizes and what engineers, startup founders and AI leaders need to do about it before it is too late.

From building the checkout pipeline at Amazon Go to leading engineering at ThoughtSpot, Rakesh has spent decades solving the hardest problems in distributed systems, machine learning and enterprise software. Now he is building Deductive AI, an AI agent that autonomously debugs and fixes production systems in real time so engineers never have to carry a pager again.

Whether you are a Engineer, AI startup founder or just someone trying to stay ahead of where Silicon Valley AI Technology is heading, this episode is unmissable.

In this episode we cover:

• Why the entire software development lifecycle is getting automated by AI agents
• How AI is replacing on call engineers and transforming site reliability engineering
• The biggest barriers to AI adoption inside enterprise companies
• Why you should hire AI agents like employees, not buy them like software
• How DoorDash and Foursquare are already using Deductive AI in production

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