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Alexandr Wang, an MIT dropout, who is now Meta's chief AI officer, encouraged teenagers to learn to use AI code creation tools during an episode of the TBPN podcast that aired earlier this month.
As AI takes over coding at tech giants, Wang advised teenagers to get up to speed with vibe-coding. In fact, he insisted that they spend "all of their time", practicing it. Vibe-coding refers to allowing AI to write code based on instructions in plain English.
"If you are, like, 13 years old, you should spend all of your time vibe-coding," Wang said on the podcast. "That’s how you should live your life", he said.
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