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Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast

August 29, 2026·27 min
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He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft co-founder and now Founder & CEO of Lyft, has built an army of coding agents that ship dozens of open source PRs a day, and on this episode of The Index he breaks down exactly how. What we cover: 🕵️ The wild near-scam that almost derailed this episode, plus the one phrase that reliably outs North Korean hackers on a cal...

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