Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling

Entrance in that software will eat the world. I I feel like coding will eat all knowledge work. Right? And we're kind of going that direction already. The whole agent stack is emerging. Yeah. Identity, payments, marketing, even CLI versus MCP. And, like, all of these are really new things, and I think a lot of the old playbook goes away. Yeah. It's it's a whole whole new world. I hope more companies will stay small. And and I I think the founders of this generation realize that. Like, they wanna stay as small as possible. Yeah. And instead of having, a 10 person product team, you have, like, a two two or three person product team, and you also have a bunch of agents to help help you. Yeah. Someone tweeted that, like, the the job market is so bad that I can only pursue my dreams now or something like that. So, like, it's it's like, you know, it's like, yeah. So maybe you lost your job, but, like, now you have to do your own thing. It's a percent. And have a shot at actually achieving it. You know? Yeah. People open their phone to feel something. Connected. Productive. Entertained. Each app is a door to a different emotional state. In 2007, the iPhone gave us the App Grid. Nineteen years later, billions of people still tap the same colored squares dozens of times a day. The interface became so familiar, it stopped feeling like technology. It became Reflex. Now a generation of builders is collapsing that entire grid into a single conversation. One agent that checks your analytics, updates your documents, runs your errands, and gives you a pep talk on your morning walk. Not because the apps failed, but because talking is faster than tapping. The question is, what happens to products, companies, and careers when building software costs almost nothing? A16z general partner Anish Atarya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox. Alright. Welcome, everyone. I've got my friend Peter Yang here. Peter, welcome. Yeah. Good to be here. It's good to see you again. Yeah. Yeah. It's great to see you. Peter and I worked together at Credit Karma Mhmm. For a brief stint, and then we went our separate ways. And I rediscovered Peter from his prolific posts on X and your YouTube. And Yeah. You've got a little bit of a Clark Kent Superman thing going because you still got a day job. Right? That's right. I still have a day job. Yes. Yeah. Can you show where? Yeah. I work at Roblox as a PM. Amazing. Roblox. And Jason Portfolio Company. Yes. One of my favorites. Well, incredible, man. Let's get right into it. Maybe I'll start with a softball fun question, and then we're gonna talk about everything in the claw ecosystem. We're gonna talk about coding agents. We're talking about a little bit about maybe what students should study, advice, and some of the things …