Peter Norvig

Absolutely.

And I think it's a combination.

So I think AI is a big part of it.

I think the Internet and access to data was part of it.

The cloud computing was a big part of it.

Right.

So it used to be, you know, if you were a software engineer, the hardest part was raising money because you had to buy a lot of computers just to get started.

Now, all you need is a laptop and a Starbucks card, and you can sit there and start going and then rent out the cloud computing resources as you need them and pay as you go.

And so I think AI will have a similar type of effect.

You can now start doing things much more quickly.

You can prototype something and go to a release product much faster.

And it'll also make it more widely available.

So I live in Silicon Valley, so I see all these notices going around of saying, looking for a technical co-founder.

So there's lots of people that say, well, I have an idea, but I'm not enough of a programmer to do it.

So I need somebody else to help me do it.

I think in the future, a lot of those people will be able to do it themselves.

So I had a great example of a friend who's a biologist, and he said, you know, I'm not a programmer.

I can pull some data out of a spreadsheet and make a chart, but I can't do much more than that.

But I study bird migrations, and I always wanted to have like this interactive map of where the birds are going and play with that.

And he said, and I knew a real programmer could do it, but it was way beyond me.