Overview

• Wang urged young people on a Sept. 17 podcast to immerse themselves in AI code-generation tools and to invest roughly 10,000 hours mastering them.
• He predicted that all the code he has written could be produced by an AI model within the next five years.
• AI coding—described as generating software from natural-language prompts—has been popularized by tools such as Replit and Cursor.
• News reports note companies are already expanding use of AI coding systems, with some roles for human programmers being reduced.
• Wang co-founded Scale AI, valued around $29 billion, and, per Forbes, has a net worth near $3.2 billion after being hired by Meta as chief AI officer in June.