What Lex Fridman thinks about empathy

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1. 12 Feb 2026

   Our readingBeing an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.

   coding agents

   Their wordsIt’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.

   ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 16th of 30 in this recording