Chris Lattner

Like, go solve a problem.

Go build the thing that you want to exist.

Go build an app.

Go train a model.

Like, go build something and actually use it and set a goal for yourself.

And if you do that, then you'll, you know, there's a success.

There's the adrenaline rush.

There's the achievement.

There's the unlock that I think is where, you know, if you keep setting goals and you keep doing things and building things, learning by building is really powerful.

In terms of career advice, everybody's different.

It's very hard to give generalized advice.

I'll speak as a compiler nerd.

If everybody's going left, sometimes it's pretty cool to go right.

Just because everybody's doing a thing, it doesn't mean...

You have to do the same thing and follow the herd.

In fact, I think that sometimes the most exciting paths through life lead to being curious about things that nobody else actually focuses on, right?

And it turns out that understanding deeply parts of the problem that people want to take for granted makes you extremely valuable and specialize in ways that

the herd is not and so again i mean there's lots of rooms for specialization lots of rooms for uh generalists there's lots of room for different kinds and parts of the problem but but i think that it's you know just because everything everybody's doing one thing doesn't mean you should necessarily do it and now the herd is using python so if you want to be a rebel go check out mojo

Yeah.

Well, so Lex, you're a pretty special person too, right?