computer science
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Brown · across every show →
Everything said about computer science, oldest first
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Computer science iterates faster than economics because building requires no permission
“If you come up with an idea, you have to get it passed through legislation and it's a very long process. Computer science is much more exciting in that way because you can just build something. You don't really need permission to do it.”
Apr 25, 2023
Zaharia: Academic founders must unlearn short-term prototyping for maintainable engineering
“A lot of research, at least in computer science, the kind of stuff that I've worked on, a lot of research is basically, is mostly prototyping. It's like, can we showcase an idea, but it's not really software engineering of like, we'll build a thing that can be…”
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Foody: Pure coding skills will not be primary value driver in five years
“I am skeptical that, like, the really valuable thing is just people who can code in five years. I think it's much more likely, like, the people that have these contrarian ideas around what's missing in markets and have the taste of What like features and nuanc…”