Patrick Collison
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460 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Apr
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Good memories.
A very large fraction of the banana market, don't forget.
So we punch above our weight in fruits that don't grow there.
There we go.
There we go.
It's interesting to me that we haven't experimented in some sense that much with the paradigm of programming over the past twenty years.
Yes.
If you put those together, you now have the ability to, again, at the kind of level of the individual cell, to read, think, and to write.
And this starts to really feel like a new kind of Turing loop and to have its own sort of completeness.
I think that's a case where the right API design, the right abstraction design uh ends up having just quite significant business um ramifications.
I think the basic idea of as development
environment and not just text editor is really the right idea and that's the thing I want to see a return to.
is to explain.
It's the best programming language.
Um well uh I had I'd worked on Lisp and Lisp dialects uh before that.
And uh actually I I'd worked on Lisp Web Frameworks.
And uh when we went to build our first startup, uh we we we first wrote it in
We f we first implemented it in Rails, and then I found compared to Lisp that development process kind of frustrating.
And I mean we don't need to get into full details, but I thought that continuation-based web frameworks were really the right way to implement web applications.
Uh there were no continuations uh in
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