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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Role of Artificial Intelligence in Programming?

I'm a big proponent again of things like static analyzers and some of that stuff where you'll find some people that don't like being scolded by a program for how they've been something. I made a point to really go through and scrub the code base using every tool that I could find, it was eye opening. It's just beyond what we can hold in our heads as kind of mutable state while we're working on things. We had good programmers and my own codes that I'd be looking at it's like oh I wrote that code that's definitely wrong we've been using this for a year and it's this submarineYou know this mine sitting there waiting for us to

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