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E16 - Coding’s Future: How OpenAI Plans to Beat the Best Human Programmers
Julia McCoy: AI, AGI & The Future of Work
5 minutes 49 seconds
8 months ago
E16 - Coding’s Future: How OpenAI Plans to Beat the Best Human Programmers
Hey, if we haven’t met—I’m Julia McCoy, your guide to the AI frontier. In this episode, we’re diving into OpenAI’s bombshell announcement: AI coders could surpass all humans by 2025. Buckle up—this isn’t sci-fi. Sam Altman just revealed how GPT models went from ranking one millionth to top 50 globally in coding… and why #1 is closer than you think.
Key Topics We Break Down:
🚀 The AI Coding Race: From OpenAI’s “millionth-best programmer” in 2023 to a projected #1 ranking THIS YEAR—the exponential leap no one saw coming.
⚙️ 3 Breakthroughs Driving This: Test-time compute, verifiable rewards, and AI models that teach themselves (think AlphaGo, but for code).
💼 Future of Work: Why Sam Altman says engineers won’t be replaced—but augmented. Plus, the economic tsunami ahead (hint: luxury goods vs. land prices).
🛠️ What Developers Should Do: Mid-level tasks? Automated. High-level design? Priceless. Why hybrid human-AI teams are the next gold rush.
Spoiler: This isn’t the end of coding—it’s the birth of a new kind of programmer.
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Join Julia for an in-depth discussion on one of the most critical challenges facing the future of AI development and economic prosperity.
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