Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Seriously man, you've had KILLER guests recently. Learning a lot, thank you for contributing to humanity's knowledge base.

My daughter was having nightmares and we listened to this podcast to distract her. She asked for it again tonight, she's 6 :)😊

For us programming nerds, this is golden.

Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - iHerb: https://lexfridman.com/iherb and use code LEX to get 22% off your order - Numerai: https://numer.ai/lex - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off 2:20 - Mojo programming language 12:37 - Code indentation 21:04 - The power of autotuning 30:54 - Typed programming languages 47:38 - Immutability 59:56 - Distributed deployment 1:34:23 - Mojo vs CPython 1:50:12 - Guido van Rossum 1:57:13 - Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow 2:00:37 - Swift programming language 2:06:09 - Julia programming language 2:11:14 - Switching programming languages 2:20:40 - Mojo playground 2:25:30 - Jeremy Howard 2:36:16 - Function overloading 2:44:41 - Error vs Exception 2:52:21 - Mojo roadmap 3:05:23 - Building a company 3:17:09 - ChatGPT 3:23:32 - Danger of AI 3:27:27 - Future of programming 3:30:43 - Advice for young people

This guy just walks around fixing programming languages and compilers, From Clang to Swift and now Mojo...God knows what he'll be doing next... An OS probably. We are lucky to have him in humanity.

Love Chris. Such a good guest every time. He is the epitome of a guest that is clear and concise in his delivery despite him having a wealth of knowledge.

Chris Lattner’s CV is so legendary. I think this is the longest intro Lex has given for a guest on the show, and I think he realized it in the middle of listing Chris’ accomplishments 😂

When I discovered Python about 15 years ago, I was so jazzed - and have been using it for countless projects, commercial and otherwise. Then I discovered Swift and SwiftUI over a year ago, and, for completely different use cases, have really been impressed. Now, here comes Lex interviewing Chris Lattner once again, about his latest foray into improving Python in so many ways. Guido tried to do some of these things when he was at Google, but Chris might just be able to pull this off. This is groundbreaking! Thank you Lex!

I’ve been craving this since the Mojo announcement. Thanks, Lex!

as a professional programmer for the last decade, listening to Chris is mental. He is so amazing. This conversation was one of the best things I've ever listened to