Andrew Ng
16 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2025 by Andrew Ng · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jul 10, 2025
Ng: One project team proposed staffing twice as many PMs as engineers
“So literally yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning a head comfort project, this team proposed to me not to have one PM to four engineers, but to have one PM to 0.5 engineers. So the team actually proposed to me. I s…”
Jul 10, 2025 bullish
Jul 10, 2025 neutral
Ng: Code itself is becoming much less valuable as engineering costs drop
“One surprising thing is, we're used to thinking of code as this really valuable artifact because it's so hard to create, but because the cost of software engineering is going down, code is much less of a valuable artifact as it used to.”
Jul 10, 2025 negative
Jul 10, 2025 positive
Ng: Bad AI architecture decisions slow startups down by 10x, not 2x
“It feels like one bit of information can at most buy you a two-way speed up. And I think in some theoretical sense, that is true. But what I see in practice, if you flip the wrong bit, you're not twice as slow. You spend like 10 times longer chasing a blind al…”
Jul 10, 2025 negative
Jul 10, 2025 positive
Ng's teams rebuilt a codebase three times in one month using AI
“So I'm on teams where, you know, we've completely rebuilt the code base three times in the last month, right? Because it's not that hard anymore to just completely rebuild the code base, pick a new data schemer, it's fine, because the cost of doing that has pl…”
Jul 10, 2025 bullish
Jul 10, 2025 bullish
Ng: AI application opportunities far exceed the number of skilled builders
“The number of opportunities, meaning the amount of stuff that is possible that no one's built yet in the world, seems much greater than the number of people with the skill to build them. So definitely at the application layer, it feels like there's a lot of wh…”
Jul 10, 2025 positive
Ng: AI turns software architecture decisions into reversible two-way doors
“So choosing the software architecture of your tech stack used to be a one-way door. Once you're built on top of a certain tech stack, you know, set a database schema, really hard to change it. So that used to be a one-way door. I don't want to say it's totally…”
Jul 10, 2025 bullish
Ng: Employees across every job role should learn how to code
“I have a controversial opinion, which is, ah, I think it's time for everyone of every job role to learn to code, and in fact, on my team, you know, my CFO, my head of talent, my recruiters, my front desk person, all of them know how to code, and I actually see…”
Jul 10, 2025
Ng: Early-stage startups should not worry about API token costs
“My most common advice to developers is to first approximation. Just don't worry about how much tokens cost. Only a small number of startups are lucky enough to have users use so much of your product that the cost of tokens becomes a problem.”
Jul 10, 2025 negative
Ng: California's SB 1047 would have harmed open-source AI without improving safety
“So I think typing up dangers, supposed false dangers of AI, in order to get regulators to pass laws, like the proposed SB-SB-Ten-Forty-Seven in California, which, thank goodness, we shut down, Would have put in place really burdensome regulatory requirements t…”
Jul 10, 2025 positive
Ng: Engineering teams should write insecure code for local prototypes
“I routinely go to my teams and say, go ahead, write insecure code, because if this software is only going to run on your laptop, and if you don't plan to maliciously hack your own laptop, It's fine to have insecure code, right? But of course, after it seems to…”
Jul 10, 2025 bullish
Ng: AI coding makes prototyping 10x faster, production only 50% faster
“When writing production quality code, maybe we're at 30 to 50% faster with AI systems. Hard to find a rigorous number. Maybe. Be as plausible to me. But in terms of building quick and dirty prototypes, we're not 50% faster. I think we're easily 10 times faster…”
Jul 10, 2025 negative
Ng: Advising people not to learn to code is terrible career advice
“Over the last year, a bunch of people have advised others not to learn to code on the ground so AI will automate it. I think we'll look back on this as some of the worst career advice ever given, because as better tools make software engineering easier, more p…”