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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Complexity in the Cloud Computing Industry

Modular has like a bitter enemy that we're fighting against in the industry. It's one of these things where everybody knows it, but nobody is usually willing to talk about it. The bitter thing that we have to destroy that we're all struggling with and it's like fish can't see water, is complexity. And so what Modular is doing is we're saying, okay, we've built many of these things, right? So I've worked on TensorFlow and TPUs and things like that. Other folks on our team have worked on PyTorch Core. We've worked on Onyx one time. They haven't been rethought. There hasn't been a

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