Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
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- dwarkesh.com
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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A frontier-lab CEO's candid take on Llama 4, gaming, open-source model economics, and how fast AI will take over code generation — useful signal for engineers betting on models and AI coding workflows.
- benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.
- open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
“I would guess that sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we'll reach the point where most of the code that's going toward these efforts is written by AI.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“The average American has fewer than three friends, fewer than three people they would consider friends.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“But if you think something someone is doing is bad and they think it's really valuable, most of the time in my experience, they're right and you're wrong.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“DeepSeek basically had to spend a bunch of their calories and time doing low-level infrastructure optimizations that the American labs didn’t have to do.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“Usually, you create things that take away 90% of the work, and that leads you to want more people, not less.”
Mark Zuckerberg
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- 00:35:10DeepSeek & China
- 00:39:49Open source AI
- 00:54:15Monetizing AGI
- 00:58:32The role of a CEO
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- 01:07:10100x productivity
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