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every year anyone Marc Andreessen 5Steven Sinofsky 4
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Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 5:25 Marc Andreessen You're, you're probably not old enough, uh, to remember, but I remember when, uh, when I was a kid, it was, um, you know, there, there were, were higher level languages, you know, uh, by the seventies, like, like basic and so forth and… 3 times in the scene
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 55:26 Steven Sinofsky The implementation of the basic programming language that had already gained strength across many of the platforms, but this consolidation that on boot up there was basic, and then this proliferation of tooling that appeared on DOS,… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 12:45 Marc Andreessen And, and what happened was you literally, you got injected into a, uh, the basic programming language interpreter. 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 25:03 Steven Sinofsky That's braindead, or like, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard, or I could do that in a weekend in basic and four K, or, you know, that, and like, they really weren't like that.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 1:05 Steven Sinofsky You know, my old boss Bill Gates was famous for how many things he could squeeze into an eight bit byte of basic, you know, over the weekend.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 12:43 unnamed speaker It was just fun, and I learned how to code in basic on a three 86.