Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm
Chris’s Website: http://nondot.org/sabre/
Mojo programming language: https://www.modular.com/mojo
Modular AI: https://modular.com/

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:20 – Mojo programming language
12:37 – Code indentation
21:04 – The power of autotuning
30:54 – Typed programming languages
47:38 – Immutability
59:56 – Distributed deployment
1:34:23 – Mojo vs CPython
1:50:12 – Guido van Rossum
1:57:13 – Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow
2:00:37 – Swift programming language
2:06:09 – Julia programming language
2:11:14 – Switching programming languages
2:20:40 – Mojo playground
2:25:30 – Jeremy Howard
2:36:16 – Function overloading
2:44:41 – Error vs Exception
2:52:21 – Mojo roadmap
3:05:23 – Building a company
3:17:09 – ChatGPT
3:23:32 – Danger of AI
3:27:27 – Future of programming
3:30:43 – Advice for young people

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