Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary

I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The YouTube video is here: YouTube Video Link As an experiment, I fed an LLM all of my recent blog posts and tweets, then I had it read this video's transcript and produce 1) a summary and 2) a cleaned up transcript (correcting all transcription mistakes, getting rid of fill words, etc). I am posting both of these below. These can be useful for both people who may want to just read the summary in text format, but also for LLMs so that my content is legible and available to them. AI generated content below for this talk follows. I used a top capability model (in this case Codex 5.5) and read the content and it reads ok without glaring mistakes. Sequoia Ascent 2026: Software 3.0, Agentic Engineering, and Jagged IntelligenceI recently joined Stephanie Zhan for a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026, speaking with founders about the recent shift in AI agents, what it means for software, and how I think about the next wave of AI-native…