Alexandr Wang, who became the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 24, leads to 28 years of one of the most ambitious artificial intelligence projects in Silicon Valley. In the first 60 days at Meta, Wang built a lab with 100 employees, described by him as “Smaller and denser in talents than any of the other laboratories”, notes fortune.com
Alexandr Wang: “The next Bill Gates will be a teenager.” Profimedia photo
Wang, with his overall perspective on the industry, has an advice for children, especially for the Alpha generation, who now goes to the gymnasium: forget about video games, sports or traditional after school hobbies.
“If you are 13, you should spend all the time doing Vibe Coding. That’s how you should live your life,” he said in a TBPN (Technology Business Network).
Wang said that “Literally the whole code I wrote in my life will be replaced by what will be produced by a model.” This achievement made it “Radicalized by the coding AI”emphasizing that the time spent experimenting and directing the instruments matters more than learning a programming language. “If you happen to spend 10,000 hours playing with the instruments and trying to find out how to use them better than others, this is a huge advantage.”he said.
For Wang, teenagers have a clear advantage over adults: time and freedom to immerse themselves in new technologies. In the past, young entrepreneurs took advantage of this time to sell sneakers or administer Minecraft servers, but now the emphasis must be on programming. Wang compares the current moment with the beginning of the Computer Revolution: “Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had a huge advantage because they grew up playing with the first cars. This moment is happening right now, and those who spend the most time with them will have an advantage in the economy of the future ”.
The meta laboratory led by Wang is divided into three departments: research, product and infrastructure. Research develops models that “Eventually will be superintelligent“, The product distributes to the users of the meta platforms, and the infrastructure focuses on “Literally the largest data centers in the world”. Wang is also enthusiastic of hardware, especially by the new Meta smart glasses, who will merge digital perception with cognition: “It will literally feel as a cognitive improvement. You will win 100 IQ points with superintelligence right next to you.”
What is vibe coding
The concept of “Vibe coding” describes a relaxed, creative and intuitive way to program, from passion and curiosity and involves the use of orders in natural language to generate the code. Instead of writing a complex syntax, users describe their intention, and you would produce functional prototypes. Wang states that this is not only a productivity method, but a future cultural necessity: “The role of an engineer is now very different from what was before. What matters is the code itself, but the hours of developing intuition using AI.”
Successful examples are not late to appear: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, has revealed that you already generate over 30% of the company’s new code, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Klarna CEO, can test ideas in 20 minutes, compared to weeks of manual work. Wang urges the Alpha generation to start early and invest their time in coding the future.
