What Jeff Dean thinks about AI and jobs

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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1. 30 Jul 2026

   Our readingAI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks.

   Their wordsYeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based longer running coding tasks and it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable and depending on exactly your definition of of junior engineer it seems pretty spot-on I would say.

   ↗Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com 1st of 22 in this recording