Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
Categories: VC, Startup, Design
Summary
In 2001, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation
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All right. Should we go Should we get started Jeff? >> Sure. Sounds great. >> All right. Jeff, welcome. And again, thank you so much for being here. Especially I just got a cold and thank you for being here. >> Yeah, I'm afraid I've lost my voice. I don't normally sound quite like this, but we'll we'll do what we can. >> So, um, you built map reduce, big table, tensorflow, the TPU, Gemini. We could spend a whole hour on all the things you've done, but what I love is that you're still making bold predictions in public. Last year, yes, last year in May 2025 at AI Ascent, you said that AI is at the level of a junior engineer. That was about a year ago. It's been How close are we to that prediction? Yeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based lo…