A conversation with
@patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life.
00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk
03:35 - LISP chatbots
06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming languages
09:12 - Brett Victor and Dynamicland
16:37 - Programming human organizations
20:28 - A codebase's "Big Bang" moment and MongoDB
25:49 - Rewriting Stripe
32:00 - How do you, Patrick Collison, use AI?
38:25 - Changes to GDP/TFP
41:56 - Programming human biology
46:10 - Unexpected beneficiaries of AI