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6 May 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
“We care about the quality of your code because this is what defines our community, which means that we have a lot of people who contribute who are from very different backgrounds and very introverts.”
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- 6 May 2026
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…The important thing is, is your code good? We care about excellent code. We don’t care who you are. Like maybe you’re a dog. I don’t care, right? I don’t care where you come from. I need to look at your code. Oh, yeah, but I’m an engineer at this very large company in Italy, in Germany, in the US. We don’t care. We care about the quality of your code because this is what defines our community, which means that we have a lot of people who contribute who are from very different backgrounds and very introverts. Sure. But that’s okay, right? FFmpeg is probably one of the biggest CPU users in the world. Everything we’ve just said in the past couple of minutes, every sentence is someone’s lifetime’s work. There are books about every sentence. So the level of complexity in many cases is inordinate.…
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