02/10/2025
Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer and Scale AI co-founder, is urging teenagers to devote themselves to “vibe coding”—using AI tools to generate software via plain English prompts—claiming it can provide a career-defining edge similar to what early programming did for Bill Gates.
Wang believes that mastering these tools and spending 10,000 hours practicing with them will be a huge advantage, predicting AI could write nearly all code needed in just a few years.
However, the widespread adoption of AI coding is being questioned: a new Bain report finds actual productivity boosts remain modest (10–15%), and warns that AI tools sometimes slow developers due to errors and “hallucinations,” leading to skepticism and frustration in the field. Industry leaders like Andrew Ng still emphasize traditional coding as essential, arguing it’s a foundational literacy for the AI era.
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