Nathan Lambert

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI · 1 Feb 2026 podcast

I do think we are closer to that side of things, and it takes direction and understanding how the systems work to extract that best from the language models.

And I think it's hard to accept the gravity of

how much is going to change with software development and how many more people can do things without ever looking at it.

I think a more intermediate example is take something like Slack or Microsoft word.

I think if the organizations allow it, AI could very easily implement features end to end and do a fairly good job for like things that you want to try.

You want to add a new tab in Slack that you want to use.

And I think AI will be able to do that pretty well.

I don't know how bad production code bases are, but I think that within like on the order of low years, a lot of people are going to be pushed to be more of like a designer and product manager where you have multiple of these agents that can try things for you.

And they might take one to two days to implement a feature or attempt to fix a bug.

And you have these dashboards, which I think Slack is actually a good dashboard where your agents will talk to you.

And you'll then give feedback, but things like, like I make a website, it's like, do you want to make a logo that's passable?

Like, I think these like cohesive design things and this style is going to be very hard for models and deciding on what to add at the next time.

I just, okay.

One of the Cloud releases this year, one of their tests was we give it a piece of software and leave Cloud to run to recreate it entirely.

And it could almost rebuild Slack from scratch just given the parameters of the software and left in a sandbox environment.

So from the scratch part?

I like almost better.

So it might be that the smaller, newer companies are advantaged and they're like, we don't have to have the bloat and complexity and therefore this future exists.

I think that's like, if you talk to people at the labs, they use these in their training and production code.

Like cloud code is built with cloud code and they all use these things extensively.

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