Masters of Scale/Possible: Amjad Masad on vibe coding, AI...

My advice would apply to 99% of people. I don't think most people who wanna make things with software and computers don't need to learn how to code. It's gonna be a huge cost on them. It's gonna take a lot of time. But instead, just jump into making things.

Masters of Scale · Possible: Amjad Masad on vibe coding, AI agents, and the...

“Like, you know, I don't think you most people who wanna make things with software and computers don't need to learn how to code.”

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what Grace Hopper said, you know, seventy five years ago. She said specialists will exist, but we want this technology to be so my advice would apply to 99% of people. Mhmm. Like, you know, I don't think you most people who wanna make things with software and computers don't need to learn how to code. It's gonna be a huge costs on them. It's gonna take a lot of time. But instead, just jump into making things. And if it's your cup of tea, if you're looking at the agent traces and you're seeing the code and you're like, okay, I'd like to learn what it's doing, then go learn it. I think it'll take you further for sure,

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Direct contrarian stance against the conventional wisdom that everyone needs to learn to code. The 99% statistic makes it quotable and provocative, challenging a widely-held belief in tech circles about coding education.

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My advice would apply to 99% of people. I don't think most people who wanna make things with software and computers don't need to learn how to code. It's gonna be a huge cost on them. It's gonna take a lot of time. But instead, just jump into making things.

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There's a woman that had a very rare eye disease and required her to do certain exercises, and she built an app that helps her do these exercises with her eyes every day. There's a woman in Korea and her kid has a very rare disease, and she built an app to manage that disease on a day to day basis.

One of the ways you can make models better and more performance is by doing sampling because models are stochastic. You can take a file system, you can fork it a 100 times, run the same prompt with different parameters on these different forks, and then pick the best one.

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