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22 Mar 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
“If you say, “Write me quicksort,” some people will think quicksort’s super complex. But I would argue that that’s actually probably the simplest thing you could ask an AI to do.”
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…Sure, yeah. If you say, “Write me quicksort,” some people will think quicksort’s super complex. But I would argue that that’s actually probably the simplest thing you could ask an AI to do. Things that are so well documented, it’s going to do a great job at that. Yeah. Probably high-level design decisions, which people don’t even use AI for right now, I guess agents are supposed to be doing that kind of stuff. That’s probably the most difficult thing or the most impactful thing, or the most difficult thing is finding bugs.…
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