BONUS: GPT 5.4 LIVE Test & Learn to Code in 2026: What's Essential vs. What AI Handles Now
episodePreviously titled “GPT 5.4 LIVE Test & Learn to Code in 2026: What's Essential vs. What AI Handles Now” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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What is the significance of AI in today's coding landscape?
here with grant as always and our special guest today ryan carson how you doing ryan hey yo doing well um it's an exciting day in ai day like every day in ai day for real no joke we were just talking this morning i said i hope when ipos happen it doesn't lose its fun yeah but it's going to i'm afraid there's there's so much ai stuff happening it's just so it's what an exciting time to be alive but also It's like slightly exhausting. Yeah. Yes. Double. We both feel that because I agree. Well, before we dive in here real quick, I want to make sure everyone who's here knows that we just launched a giveaway in partnership with NVIDIA. So if you go to the link that's about to pop into the chat and sign up for any one GTC session and attend it, you can enter for a chance to win a free DGX Spark provided by NVIDIA.
that I'm salivating over, to be fair. I want that. Can I just leave and join the audience and win that? Drop. Oh, my gosh. Oh, pretty cool. More to come on that later, though. Just wanted to drop that in. Grant, I'll pass over to you. Yeah, yeah. So I want to introduce Ryan properly for folks who don't know him. But before we do, I also want to acknowledge the elephant in the room. GBG 5.4 just dropped. We will be talking about it. Hopefully, Ryan, it sounds like Ryan's already got it queued up in his codec. So hopefully, we can play with it as we go. And maybe we'll talk benchmarks and stuff after we go through what we have scheduled. So it's exciting. All right, so for people who don't know Ryan Carson, he is awesome.
So, uh, Ryan Carson has, uh, built and sold three different companies that I know of maybe more. Um, he's taught 1 million people how to code with his company tree house. And most recently he's actually building another product himself. called Untangle. Maybe you're building multiple things. You can tell us everything that you're working on. But the thing that really inspired this livestream was I was watching a really great episode you did with Greg Eisenberg, and you were talking about the fact how you used to teach people how to code with Treehouse. And I was so taken aback by that because I was like, how would you teach the next one million people how to code today in 2026 when AI can basically do the coding for you?
and ask you this, and you generously decided to come on the show. So I will hand it over to you, and we're going back to school, so everybody get your pencils out. Ryan Carson, how would you teach people how to code in 2026? Oh, boy, that is the question. But thanks for having me on the show, and thanks for your very generous intro. It's fun to be here. And what a time to be alive, you know, when you can think and therefore build. So, you know, so this all started back in high school. So actually earlier than that, so my dad brought home an Apple IIe computer, and I was like, cool, what is that? Um, you know, I started playing with it and, and for those of you remember, there was games like Zork, which were basically text only, you know, and you started to realize, gosh, that you can create these worlds, you know, with, with code and text and, and, um, and I, I thought about, I played these games, but didn't really connect the dots that like, maybe I could create these things.
until I was very lucky to have a high school teacher named Miss Bruce. She was my calculus teacher. She was hilarious. She would teach us things like concepts where we had to memorize a rap, which would allow us to do linear algebra and things like that. I didn't think she was very cool, but she changed my life because she said, hey, well, you should take our programming class. And I was like, I don't know what programming is. And she said, it's where you tell the computer what to do and it does it. And how right was she? Yeah, for real. That's like the perfect definition. You know, I mean, she predicted that this is probably 1993 or something. And she was right. Here we are. We tell the computer what to do and does it.
So I learned how to code and study computer science.
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