The speaker sees programmer-accelerating tools, from code editors and syntax highlighting to type checking and newer AI systems, as points on a continuum of recursive self-improvement.

“maybe because this could set one other kind of thought of that is like i do feel like i have a hard time differentiating where ai begins and stops because i do see ai as fundamentally an extension of computing in some in some pretty fundamental way and i feel like i see a continuum of this kind of like recursive self-improvement or like speeding up programmers all the way from beginning like even like i would say like code editors um”

“Syntax highlighting,”

“syntax or like checking even of the of the types like data type checking.”