Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

link for people that want to watch it: [link] i would also recommend another two of his interviews: Todd Howard [link] Guido van Rossun ▶ this video

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This is baseless conjecture and completely without merit. Guido was intimately involved with this speed-up work. I've disagreed with Guido over things but the things you're saying are just weird. I recommend this interview to get a slightly better glimpse of the guy: ▶ this video

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Yeah unironically. Guido van Rossum - "I use it every day. My biggest adjustment with using Copilot was that instead of writing code, my posture shifted to reviewing code." ▶ this video Here's Jeff Dean saying 25% of the characters in new PRs at Google are AI Generated. [link] Andrej Karpathy - "I basically can't imagine going back to "unassisted" coding at this point" [link] Andrew Ng - "I run multiple models on my laptop — Mistral, Llama, Zefa. And I use ChatGPT quite often. " [link] Simon Willison [link] I mean I can keep going. I doubt you would compare yourself to these people.

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There was some high-level discussion of this in the chat Guido van Rossum had with Lex Fridman (timestamped): ▶ this video

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If I remember Guido van Rossum did mention the status of the GIL in one of the Lex Friedman episodes [1] he was on (it's been a while, so I may be misremembering). Surprised to see a big decision like this happen so quickly. Did Meta's announcement play a big role in this [2]? [1]: ▶ this video [2]: [link]

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