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22 Mar 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
“I think that the bigger the project you can manage, the bigger the thing you can build, the more understanding both down and up the stack you can go, the more valuable you become. Because if you understand how to build something in the front end, okay, well, now you kick off some LLM task of some sort, that’s going to go off and make a change to the front end.”
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- 22 Mar 2025
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…Yeah. Is there something you recommend how a developer or programmer could avoid the situation where AI can automate them away? I think that the bigger the project you can manage, the bigger the thing you can build, the more understanding both down and up the stack you can go, the more valuable you become. Because if you understand how to build something in the front end, okay, well, now you kick off some LLM task of some sort, that’s going to go off and make a change to the front end. Okay, while it’s doing that, you can go and kick off something in the CLI tool, you can go and you can go kick off something somewhere else. And as these things come back with results, you can review the results, make sure it’s the way you want it, change it, commit it, go to the next. You only become more, as you said in the end, more productive if we reach this state where it’s truly able to do that. I think there is like a skill to working together with AI, which is why I’m kind of excited to watch you keep trying to do it.…
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