Y Combinator Startup Podcast

The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence

February 27, 2026·19 min·3-min readinterviewtechnology
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Ian Fisher, co-founder of Poetic, discusses how his startup is building recursively self-improving AI reasoning harnesses that outperform and adapt to any large language model (LLM), offering startups a way to avoid the 'bitter lesson' of fine-tuning by staying ahead of frontier models wi

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Ian Fisher

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Ian Fisher

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PoeticGoogle DeepMind

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Artificial IntelligenceLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningProduct ManagementResearchSoftware EngineeringStartups

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