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AI Side Quests, Zaslav's Payday, SF Housing Market is Back | Shyam Sankar, Gili Raanan, Anna Patterson, Jake Loosararian, carried_no_interest

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Mar 17, 2026
Shyam Sankar, Palantir CTO focused on defense tech, joins Gili Raanan, Cyberstarts founder and cyber investor, Anna Patterson, Ceramic AI founder and ex-Google engineering leader, and Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics co-founder building climbing inspection robots. They dive into AI side quests, software PE debt cliffs, SF housing mania, ultra-cheap AI search, cyber arms races, and robots reshaping industry.
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Cybersecurity May Shrink From Profession To Function

  • Gili Raanan predicts AI will compress cybersecurity teams dramatically inside the largest enterprises.
  • After correctly foreseeing million-dollar ARR with one employee and $100 million ARR with under 100 employees, he predicts Fortune 100 security teams under 10 people.

Search Costs Now Dominate Many AI Applications

  • Anna Patterson argues search is now the hidden cost bottleneck in AI apps because inference got cheap while retrieval stayed expensive.
  • Ceramic prices search at $0.05 per thousand queries versus roughly $5 to $15 elsewhere and compares it to expensive salsa on cheap tacos.

Supervised Generation Verifies Answers Mid Response

  • Ceramic tries to cut hallucinations by checking model output with search while the model is still generating.
  • Anna Patterson calls this supervised generation, where the system verifies claims and asks what else it should add for completeness.
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