Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang stated on the TBPN podcast that 13-year-olds should spend all their time on ambient programming and treat it as a lifestyle. He mentioned that investing 10,000 hours in AI coding tools would create a significant advantage.

Ambient programming refers to giving instructions in plain English for tools to generate code. Tools he mentioned include Replit and Cursor. In projects by Microsoft and Google, AI has written up to 30% of the code. Google CEO Sundar Pichai also mentioned in June that he created a webpage using this method.

Wang said that the ability of AI to write code has "radicalized" him. He believes the role of engineers is fundamentally different from before and predicts that in the next five years, models will be able to write a large amount of code, including all the code he has written.

Born around 1997, he dropped out of MIT as a freshman and founded the data labeling company Scale AI in 2016, serving as CEO for nearly a decade. Forbes listed him as the youngest self-made billionaire with a net worth of about $2 billion. At the time of the article's publication, he was 28 years old.

In June, he announced his departure from Scale to join Meta. Meta invested $14.3 billion for a 49% stake and talent, including him, increasing Scale's valuation from $14 billion to $29 billion. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that natural language is the new programming language, and not having learned to code is no longer a barrier.

The buyers are teenagers using natural language to code, non-technical founders, and large engineering teams, while the sellers are outsourcing firms charging for manual coding and courses that only teach syntax. The event was driven by podcast discussions. The budget is shifting from computer degrees and line-by-line coding to prompt-based tools, benefiting Replit, Cursor, and those who can turn English into runnable products, while putting pressure on training that only sells syntax without teaching model scheduling capabilities.

Source: Public Information