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The speaker is interested in both programming and human languages and thinks about how language shapes reasoning and the limits of what people can do.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“but I love languages whether it's coding or human and I do think a lot about how that affects reasoning and the boundaries of what we can do I don't need to go too much beyond that I don't know if you have any other thoughts my closing question was going to”Play from 1:32:01Report a misattribution
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