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Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube.

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  1. Our readingLeaning on AI trades knowledge for speed, and the price may be a generation of programmers in which juniors stay juniors forever.

    Their wordsSometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.

    ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 14th of 31 in this recording

  3. Our readingEvery improvement in computing so far has produced more jobs, not fewer.

    Their wordsthere's been no computer improvement up to this date that did not result in more jobs.

    ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 25th of 31 in this recording

  5. Our readingIf AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming.

    Their wordsAnd if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.

    ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 27th of 31 in this recording