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Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman · 1.8M views · 2022-11-26 · 3:15:51

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Overview

A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python. Topics include Python's design, the GIL, asyncio, the future of programming and AI coding tools.

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HN points to it for Guido's own views on the GIL, Python internals and using Copilot, especially in Python-related threads.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2022–2025

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fernandotakai · 2023-07 · Recommendation

link for people that want to watch it: [LINK] i would also recommend another two of his interviews: Todd Howard [LINK] Guido van Rossun [VIDEO]

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pen2l · 2022-12 · Recommendation

This is baseless conjecture and completely without merit. Guido was intimately involved with this speed-up work. I've disagreed with Guido over things but the things you're saying are just weird. I recommend this interview to get a slightly better glimpse of the guy: [VIDEO]

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vonneumannstan · 2025-02 · Reference

Yeah unironically. Guido van Rossum - "I use it every day. My biggest adjustment with using Copilot was that instead of writing code, my posture shifted to reviewing code." [VIDEO] Here's Jeff Dean saying 25% of the characters in new PRs at Google are AI Generated. [LINK] Andrej Karpathy - "I basically can't imagine going back to "unassisted" coding at this point" [LINK] Andrew Ng - "I run multiple models on my laptop — Mistral, Llama, Zefa. And I use ChatGPT quite often. " [LINK] Simon Willison [LINK] I mean I can keep going. I doubt you would compare yourself to these people.

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