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Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
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A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python. Topics include Python's design, the GIL, asyncio, the future of programming and AI coding tools.

HN points to it for Guido's own views on the GIL, Python internals and using Copilot, especially in Python-related threads.

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@pen2l2022 · in “Python 3.11 Delivers”

This is baseless conjecture and completely without merit. Guido was intimately involved with this speed-up work. I've disagreed with Guido over things but the things you're saying are just weird. I recommend this interview to get a slightly better glimpse of the guy: [VIDEO]

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@fernandotakai2023 · in “Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling”

link for people that want to watch it: [LINK] i would also recommend another two of his interviews: Todd Howard [LINK] Guido van Rossun [VIDEO]

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@frfl2023 · in “The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional”

If I remember Guido van Rossum did mention the status of the GIL in one of the Lex Friedman episodes [1] he was on (it's been a while, so I may be misremembering). Surprised to see a big decision like this happen so quickly. Did Meta's announcement play a big role in this [2]? [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]

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@mobiuscog2023 · in “How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python?”

There was some high-level discussion of this in the chat Guido van Rossum had with Lex Fridman (timestamped): [VIDEO]

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@vonneumannstan2025 · in “The Generative AI Con”

Yeah unironically. Guido van Rossum - "I use it every day. My biggest adjustment with using Copilot was that instead of writing code, my posture shifted to reviewing code." [VIDEO] Here's Jeff Dean saying 25% of the characters in new PRs at Google are AI Generated. [LINK] Andrej Karpathy - "I basically can't imagine going back to "unassisted" coding at this point" [LINK] Andrew Ng - "I run multiple models on my laptop — Mistral, Llama, Zefa. And I use ChatGPT quite often. " [LINK] Simon Willison [LINK] I mean I can keep going. I doubt you would compare yourself to these people.

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