What Bret Taylor thinks about code generation

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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1. 18 Aug 2025

   Our readingWhen an AI writes bad code the thing to fix is the context it was given, not the code, because fixing the output adds no leverage.

   Their wordsif it produces incorrect code our philosophy is don't fix the code fix the context that cursor had that produced the bad code

   ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording