Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
Patrick Collison suggests AI may make source code obsolete like compilers made assembly irrelevant
“maybe in the same way we shouldn't mourn source code and we should just transcend the plane of uh instructions to Claudius at all”— Jeff Dean
In a Y Combinator Startup School conversation, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison drew an analogy between compilers replacing assembly and AI potentially replacing hand-written source code, suggesting developers may need to 'transcend the plane of instructions' entirely. The discussion centered on what skills students should prioritize learning in an AI-driven world. While philosophically notable, the talk offered no concrete announcements and Collison expressed personal ambivalence rather than a definitive stance.