Programmers

“You know, the second thing, you've heard all the kind of economic data, everything from radiologists who are supposed to be cooked every year for, I think about 20 years now. And of course, job postings are higher than they've ever been, as well as programmers…”

“I think there's going to be a generation of Programmers that don't have to learn that stuff.”

“Now programmers are going to be a 10 times or a hundred times or a thousand times more productive than they used to be.”

“I think at the end of the day, the most reliable indicator here is going to be how much money these people are making from programmers. And from, you know, subscriptions in general, and it's a lot of money. I think there's definitely indications that people ar…”

“Using AI, I think everybody, eight billion people in the world will be programmers because they'll vibe code. That's why this is a hundred X opportunity. It's really a hundred X because hundred X times thirty million is three billion. So there will be three bi…”

“Programmers spend maybe 10, 10, 20% of their time actually thinking about users, the product, and then they spend 80% of their time fighting with the systems. Figuring out how to deploy it and scale it and run the database and all of that.”

“And so if anything, I think there's going to be, I think there's going to be way more product, way more programmers and way more engineers, you know, a few years from now than there are today.”

“This is gonna be a no-brainer for every programmer in the world to have one of these assistants.”

“We're already developing things for programmers, you know, How is an agent different from a programmer? And it is different, obviously, you know, like agents are different from programmers, but they're not that different at this point, so we can kind of intera…”

“If you can do that with a letter, you can do it with a word. If you can do it with a word, you can do it with a sentence. You can do it with a sentence. Maybe you could do it with whole strings of sentences, of code, of like complex ideas. I don't think we're …”

“At first, like a coding agent, for instance, right now is actually lifting up the at or below average programmers more and more. Like, if you're a solid programmer, but maybe not the best, like, you can get much more productive with an AI agent that helps you …”

“Programmers are definitely going to get more effective. We're going to get more agentic programming tools. So you're going to get higher and higher leverage, but I don't think it's going to make the team smaller. I think it's just going to make the ambitions b…”

“The work of programmers are in a way lucky and happy creatures, because they build something. They are creators, you know, they are, in a way, artists, so they get the feeling of being completely in the flow.”

“A great programmer could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even negative wealth.”

“The key insight was realizing that programmers kind of think in blocks. So if you can just autocomplete the rest of the current block, Then that's what people want. People can, they're kind of like judging what this block is going to do, and if it does the rig…”

“If you're a good programmer, if you're a good programmer and you leave and you leave in a nice way, no matter what happens to you can come back. There's actually not that much loss you have to take.”

“But the idea that AI is a, is sort of this magic pixie dust that we sprinkle in anything, and therefore all the programmers are going away, it's just, it's, that, I mean, it's just science fiction.”

“If anything, actually, what's gonna happen is the programmers are gonna get, the programmers are gonna be higher paid because they're gonna be higher productivity.”

“I don't know that it's realistic, though, that, or even desirable, right, that we end up with, you know, far more programmers than we end up with anything else.”

“If you've worked with someone for a week, you have a far better read of their skill than I think anyone can get during a three to four hour interview. The problem is that there's a pretty strong bias in who's willing to do trial employment. And that's, it's ad…”

“Whiteboard coding tends to skew toward the academic. It tends to Give preference to people who are really good at breaking their thoughts down into this sort of structured academic way and writing with a small amount of code. So you often have people who are a…”

“I would strongly recommend that everyone learn to code. Even if you're not great, you at least know how to do it, and it helps you sort of judge other programmers.”

“I do not think that AI is anywhere near replacing programmers, which I think are creative people, or editors, or writers.”

“In the future, all programmers will write code in the cloud and Cloud Nine is the premier option for that today.”