"Wang, with his aerial view of the industry, has advice for kids, especially those in Gen Alpha now entering middle school: Forget gaming, sports, or traditional after-school hobbies. "If you are like 13 years old, you should spend all of your time vibe coding," he said in his recent TBPN interview. "That's how you should live your life." A generational moment For Wang, the reasoning is simple. Every engineer, himself included, is now writing code that he believes will be obsolete within five years."
""Literally all the code I've written in my life will be replaced by what will be produced by an AI model," he said. That realization has left him, in his words, "radicalized by AI coding." What matters most now isn't syntax, or learning a particular language, but time spent experimenting with and steering AI tools. "It's actually an incredible moment of discontinuity," Wang said. "If you just happen to spend 10,000 hours playing with the tools and figuring out how to use them better than other people, that's a huge advantage.""
Alexandr Wang leads a 100-person AI lab at Meta focused on pursuing superintelligence and positioned as smaller and more talent-dense than other labs. He recommends that Gen Alpha teenagers prioritize coding and mastering AI tools instead of traditional after-school hobbies. Wang predicts that most existing code will be replaced by AI-produced code within five years, making immersive experimentation with AI tooling the most valuable skill. Intensive practice—accumulating thousands of hours using and steering models—creates a sustained advantage. The current moment is compared to the dawn of the PC revolution, offering early adopters long-term benefits.
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