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Published · transcript-backedSherwin Wu: belief
12 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu
“I didn't really fully internalize this until I went to Dallas and observed when your house sits next to one of these giant voltage lines, it was buzzing and most people have families, you don't want your kids near there. So I think that was one that really, really kind of surprised me.”
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- Sherwin Wu
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Last question. So in your previous life, you worked at Opendoor where you led work on basically figuring out how much to pay for houses. You basically built a model that told the company, "Here's how much we'll pay for this house." What's a variable in the price of a house that you didn't expect is really important and impacts the price of a house? There's a bunch that were surprising. I'll maybe list the couple of the most interesting ones. Power lines and high voltage power lines are super, super, they actually impact your price quite a lot. I didn't really fully internalize this until I went to Dallas and observed when your house sits next to one of these giant voltage lines, it was buzzing and most people have families, you don't want your kids near there. So I think that was one that really, really kind of surprised me. That makes sense.…
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