More About Yoko
Yoko is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on developer tools, infrastructure, and AI. Yoko is an engineer by trade: before joining a16z, she was an engineer at AppDynamics, founding engineer/PM at Transposit, and led product at Hashicorp (Terraform Cloud). She remains an active open source developer, maintainer and contributor, and built projects like AI-town (https://github.com/a16z-infra/AI-town), AI-tamago(https://github.com/ykhli/AI-tamago), companion app (https://github.com/a16z-infra/companion-app) and local-ai-stack (https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack/).
Aside from venture and app building, Yoko is an active cartoonist and has a passion for explaining technical concepts (as well as making fun of them) in her cartoons. You can find her cartoons here: https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws
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The a16z Infra teams explores how LLMs are reshaping software development — from its potential as a new programming abstraction to its practical impacts.
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Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.
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Anthropic's David Soria Parra discusses MCP's inception, exciting use cases for connecting LLMs to external sources, and what's coming next for the project.
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a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents.
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Resend's Zeno Rocha and a16z's Yoko Li discuss how AI agents and MCP are reshaping the developer experience for email creation and programming overall.
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Resend is transforming how businesses communicate with their customers, and setting new standards for the developer experience around email sending.
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A very simple “getting started with AI” template for those who want to play with core technologies, but not have to think too much about tooling.
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