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Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management

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120 points cl42 | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 19:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bgwalter ◴[30 Aug 25 14:45 UTC] No.45075094[source]▶
I wonder what his colleague Knuth at Stanford says about commercially driven hype like:

"AI has made coding the easy part."

"Things that used to take six engineers three months to build, "my friends and I, we'll just build on a weekend," Ng said.

The man has a complete disdain for the field and for the thousands of open source developers whose code he is using in laundered form.

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brookst ◴[30 Aug 25 14:49 UTC] No.45075128[source]▶
Good thing those open source developers learned their craft in isolated rooms, never seeing anyone else’s code.

All of culture and technology builds be accreting on top of previous works. I can’t stand the moral outrage from people who are themselves standing on the shoulders of giants.

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1. LtWorf ◴[30 Aug 25 21:45 UTC] No.45078263[source]▶
Humans don't need to read all of the existing code to produce new code. In fact humans invented code into existance.
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2. brookst ◴[01 Sep 25 17:35 UTC] No.45094804[source]▶
Clever shift of “humans” meaning individuals in the first sentence, and the category in the second.

Today’s humans who write code positively learned from reading other peoples’ code.