Kevin Weil

And you have that times a million as you look around the world.

And so, I mean, that is actually the other thing about coding that I think is super interesting.

That's maybe like the, you know, ninth reason why coding is a good, it's such a general purpose technology.

If you can create code, then you can create all kinds of things.

And so there's something really powerful to the idea that a billion people might be able to write code.

So Stephen Sanofsky told me an interesting story about this one time.

Stephen used to run Windows at Microsoft and Office and everything.

And he was telling me this story about the transition from Windows 93 to Windows or whatever it was called back then to Windows 95, Windows 3.1 maybe.

where it was just like the beginning of the internet.

And so most people weren't using the internet.

And if you were going to actually get on the internet with Windows 3.1, you had to go to some University of Oregon professor's website and download a TCP IP stack, compile it yourself, and install some device drivers, and then you could actually go on the internet.

And then in Windows 95, of course, the internet was happening and they were like, okay, we need to ship this stuff with Windows.

And so they did.

And it was like you were saying, there was this, you know, there were a bunch of people who were like, hey, now that, you know, you've just like put that university of whatever professor, you know,

he did all this work and now you just shipped it.

Come on.

And Stephen's point was that you would never want to live in a world where today you still had to go to like some professor's website and download a TCP IP stack and compile it yourself to get it going.

You just want to use the internet.

And basically the expectations of a platform, the consumer expectations of a platform are an increasing function of time.

And if the platform can provide more of the technology that, you know, if you see something where,