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Qiu: Software output will explode as programming democratizes to non-coders

Kanjun Qiu · No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht · Nov 16, 2023 · at 30:31

Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and co-founder of AI research lab Imbue, discussing the future of AI-assisted software generation.

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“Software is just dramatically underwritten because it's so hard to write code today. So, you know, as we said in the future, like, computers will be able to be programmed by regular people. What that means is, like, we're gonna write way, way, way more software all the time.”

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