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How AI Is Changing Code - Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson

aired Jun 10, 2026 · 49.0m
Signal
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Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig45.1
Actn100.0
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Clty75.0
Summary

One of my closest friends is a top engineer at a big company and uses AI a little bit, uses a little bit here and there. But he's like, look, my code is supposed to last for 20 years and it powers to some small degree, a big part of the economy.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, going, it's, including: But he's like, look, my code is supposed to last for 20 years and it powers to some small degree, a big part of the economy.

Key takeaways
  1. 01He's a writer, a coder, and entrepreneur, and he's been building software for something like 30 years
  2. 02Maybe they can use some AI tools
  3. 03Engineering is changing fundamentally in every way What if I asked you to argue it the other way Could you Sure I could argue that I mean we seeing plagiarism or we seeing all kind
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