Shawn Wang: belief

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…I mean, maybe, but like, I don't know, like, you know, I've been coding for almost 30 or more than 30 years. And like, I feel like, you know, you look at like programming and, you know, where it is today versus where it was, you know, 30, 40, 50 years ago, there's like probably thousand times more developers today than, you know, so like, and every year there's more and more developers. And at the same time, developer productivity keeps going up. And when I look at the real world, I just think there's so much software that's still waiting to be built. Like, I think we can, you know, 10X the amount of developers and still, you know, have a lot of people making a lot of money, you know, building amazing software and also being while at the same time being more productive. Like I never understood this, like, you know, AI is going to, you know, replace engineers. That's very rarely how this actually works. When AI makes engineers more productive, like the demand actually goes up because the cost of engineers goes down because you can build software more cheaply. And that's, I think, the story of software in the world over the last few decades. So, I mean, I don't know how this relates to like competitive programming. Kind of going back to your question, competitive programming to me was always kind of a weird kind of, you know, niche, like kind of, I don't know. I love it. It's like puzzle solving. And like my experience is like, you know, half of competitive programmers are able to translate that to actual like building cool stuff in the world. Half just like get really in, you know, sucked into this like puzzle stuff and, you know, it never loses its grip on them. But like for me, it was an amazing way to get started with coding or get very deep into coding and, you know, kind of battle off with like other smart kids and traveling to different countries when I was a teenager. I was just going to mention, like, it's not just that he personally is a competitive programmer. Like, I think a lot of people at Modal are competitive programmers. I think you met Akshat through... Akshat, co-founder is also at Gold Medal. By the way, Gold Medal doesn't mean you win. Like, but although we actually had an intern that won Iowa. Gold Medal is like the top 20, 30 people roughly.…

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