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Lex Fridman: belief

3 Feb 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

“I think also the nature of what it means to be a programmer and what kind of jobs programmers do changes, because I think there needs to be a human in the loop of everything you’ve talked about.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
3 Feb 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…The big picture is that I don’t think it’s going to be a cliff. I think a really good example of how growth changes is when Meta added stories. So Snapchat was on an exponential, they added stories, it flatlined. Software engineers then up until the right, AI is going to come in, it’s probably just going to be flat. It’s not like everyone’s going to lose their job. It’s hard because the supply corrects more slowly. So the amount of students is still growing, and that’ll correct on a multi-year, like a year delay, but the amount of jobs will just turn and then maybe in 20, 40 years, it’ll be well down. But in the few years, there’ll never going to be the snap moment where it’s like software engineers aren’t useful. I think also the nature of what it means to be a programmer and what kind of jobs programmers do changes, because I think there needs to be a human in the loop of everything you’ve talked about. There’s a really important human in that picture of correcting the code, fixing- Thinking larger than the context length.…

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