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Published · transcript-backedNathan Lambert: belief
1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I would say less than that on the software side, but I think longer than that on things like research.”
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- Nathan Lambert
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- 1 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…So you think your prediction would be, if this is even a useful milestone, more than 10 years out? I would say less than that on the software side, but I think longer than that on things like research. Well, let’s just for fun try to imagine a world where all software writing is fully automated. Can you imagine that world?…
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