Bill Gates Reacts To Elon Musk’s Influence On Trump Presidency | The View
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Bill Gates discusses his three-hour dinner with President Donald Trump, tech taking a front-row seat at Trump's second inauguration, and Elon Musk’s efforts to shut down government agency USAID.
Just like with Google search, the, the additional language models, large
language models, you basically don't have to remember nearly as much just
like with Stack Overflow for programming.
Now that these language models can generate code right there.
I mean, I find that I write like maybe 80%, 90% of the code I write is,
is a non-generated first and then edited.
And so you don't have to remember how to write specifics of different functions.
Oh, but that's great.
And it's also, it's not just the, the specific coding.
I mean, in the, in the context of a, of a large company like this, I think before
an engineer can sit down to code, they first need to figure out all of the
libraries and dependencies that, you know, tens of thousands of people
have written before them.
And, um, you know, one of the things that I'm excited about that we're
working on is it's not just, um, you know, tools that help engineers code.
It's tools that can help summarize the whole knowledge base and, and, and
help people be able to navigate all the internal information.
I mean, I think that that's, um, I, in the experiments that I've done with
this stuff, I mean, that's on the public stuff, you just ask, ask, um, one
of these models to build you a script that does anything, and it basically
already understands what the best libraries are to do that thing and
pulls them in automatically.
It's, I mean, I think that's super powerful.
That was always the most annoying part of coding was that you had to spend
all this time actually figuring out what the resources were that you
were supposed to import before you could actually start building the thing.
Yeah.
I mean, there's, of course the flip side of that, I think for the most part
it's positive, but the flip side is if you outsource that thinking to an AI
model, you might miss nuanced mistakes and bugs, you lose the skill to find
those bugs and those bugs might be, uh, the code looks very convincingly right.
But it's actually wrong in a very subtle way.
That's, that's the trade-off that we, uh, that we face as human civilization
when we build more and more powerful tools, when we stand on the shoulders
of taller and taller giants, we could do more, but then we forget how to
do all the stuff that they did.
It's a, it's a weird trade-off.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, I think it's, I think it is very valuable in your life to
be able to do basic things too.

