Werner Vogels

You know, we went from things like Pascal, which probably was sort of the first version of a little bit of structured programming, to C++ and Java and Python and just the whole world.

None of us panicked there.

We just learned a new programming language.

It's not like that we're suddenly frozen in our chair and now we have AI tools to help us building the systems that we do.

Why should we start to be scared suddenly?

Why should we suddenly become... We just learn to use new tools.

Because remember, it's you that built, not the tools.

It's also you that own it, not the tools.

If the tools is built something that, and you're in a financial company, that suddenly no longer makes you compliant, it's pretty hard to say to the regulator, oh, that was the AI.

That was the tool.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's still your responsibility.

And as such, I think that no matter how good tools we build, we still need to educate ourselves.

We need to continue to keep ourselves on a path of education, learning, continuing to learn.

And looking at you two, you're not the youngest.

So I'm pretty sure that before you wrote something in Python, you wrote something in C++ or in ABC.

I wasn't learning Python or going to the next programming language, my favorite being Rust at the moment.

But there will be something else after Rust.

Sure.

We won't panic suddenly and thinking that the world will collapse and all our jobs are going to go away.