Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

okay patrick thanks so much for being here welcome to startup school great to be here um harj and i first met 20 years ago and um uh he um we started a company together sorry am i giving away the introduction yeah i thought this was my interview but sure keep going We started a company together many, many years ago, and I learned a huge amount from Harch. So it's really fun to do this.

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1. 01Yeah so what I was going to ask is a prolific 16 year old today could presumably just like prompt Claude to write their Lisp dialect would you advise them to not do that and still
2. 02I don't know I wonder a lot yeah like obviously on the one hand it used to be really fun to write all this assembly and machine code and to optimize your instructions and layout an
3. 03I mean, my model of this is is cache, you know, the CH, not an SH, where Jeff Dean has this famous set of numbers that every programmer should know, bandwidths and latencies and ju