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22 Mar 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

“Every way it’s described, all the different things. I think Zig’s is, it’s a decent size, but it’s not just simply read the words.”

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22 Mar 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…That’s a lot. Yeah. Every way it’s described, all the different things. I think Zig’s is, it’s a decent size, but it’s not just simply read the words. You want to internalize each concept as well. So it takes a long time. So I’m a slow reader. So you’re building, in AI terms, like a background model. I don’t think you can just start building once you’re done reading because you probably forgot how to do a for loop. You kind of forget the specifics. You just are building up the design choices, the set of features available, what are the strengths and weaknesses, all that kind of stuff. And then you start building. That’s really interesting. Probably not the thing you would recommend to a junior developer, somebody who’s just starting out at first.…

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