Yoko Li

2 months ago | a16z.com | Justine Moore |Yoko Li |Gabriel Vasquez |Bryan Kim |Marco Mascorro

What products are builders using to make websites and web apps with AI? A deep dive into how these products work, their limitations, and the features on the horizon.

May 14, 2024 | a16z.com | Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Bryan Kim |Martin Casado

As former developers and product managers, we’ve lived the grueling dance between designers and developers, where questions such as “Is this design technically feasible?” and “Can you add another screen for this step?” take place in every meeting. All too often, this aspiring creative exchange resulted in a Jira-filled, time-consuming process comprised of iterations, compromises, and, ultimately, a disconnect between the designer’s vision and the developer’s execution.

Feb 28, 2024 | a16z.com | Martin Casado |Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Matt Bornstein

There is no culture, country, nor period of human history where creative expression hasn’t been central. It’s an intrinsic “something” that has long defined humans as humans, and (rightly or wrongly …) somehow different from all other forms of life. And yet, despite its foundational nature inside all of us, being a “creative” is often also reduced to describing someone with innate skill or studied mastery in creative disciplines such as music, painting, or sculpting.

Feb 14, 2024 | a16z.com | Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Justine Moore |Bryan Kim

The serverless platform shift is unfolding at a rapid pace. By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. Having spent the last few years studying this market, we observed two key drivers behind the adoption of this platform shift — one architectural, and the other organizational. First, application logic is becoming event-driven for new apps, necessitated by high volume and low-latency communication between third-party APIs and microservices.

Jun 21, 2023 | a16z.com | Yoko Li |Jennifer Li |Martin Casado

It’s hard to understand new software infrastructure technologies without using them. At least, that’s what the a16z infrastructure team has found— and because so many of us started our careers as programmers, we’re often learning by doing. This has particularly been the case with the generative AI wave that has come so fast, and so spectacularly, that good documentation often lags code by months.