- Introduction
- Love for programming
At , I realized this is perhaps the best podcast I have ever heard in my life. It has everything, Then I noticed it's 5 hours long! Can't wait to finish it!
OMG it's the exact same thing that got me into programming, the moment i understood linked lists was like the whole world of programming opened to me
in and not a single mention of Salesforce Apex? I know it's a sort of a brand specific language, but it's really cool and integrates really well with other outside systems with different languages and salesforce has just endless API's
smart editor adding that keyboard for context 😶🌫️
Bro started interviewing the interviewer. Lol this guy🤣🤣
Listened to the podcast and thought it was kinda funny that Prime says that "productivity is the only thing that matters", into the interview. Unfortunately the timing didn't match up with the video on YT
I became increasingly interested in the starting seeds as you showed these games of life. How incredible!
I listed to and he said hardly anything of use. A gold nugget here one there. This could have been a 7-8 minute podcast.
I had the same experience with the towers of Hanoi last week. I am glad I discovered primegen, and this gives me new hope
that's exactly the problem I have with my current job. It's a great job to have if you need a few more years to retire, but It's an awful choice for a first job. As much as I love my team and even my higher-ups, rhe most I'll learn here is how to optimise work that's figured out for the next decade.
- Hardest part of programming
PM IST : "i should go to sleep"
PM IST : * Lex drops a 5 hr podcast with the primeagen
PM IST: "orders 2 redbulls"
THIS RIGHT HERE he spoke to my soul
- Types of programming
I’m only in, and this is the GREATEST interview of all time. The greatest gathering of two programmers.
- Life story
“Obviously it was a very poor attempt” 😭
Did bro just spoil a 14k page book series???
I believe this. I've also had an experience in which God... I don't know whether to say "spoke to" or maybe "moved upon" me... and it changed my life. It was a very distinct experience - not something fanciful or mysterious - but calm and clear and certain.
I also randomly developed a conscience at 18-19 years old. It occurred after years of degrading mental wellness, reclusiveness, and physical health.
- Hardship
- High school
- Porn addiction
- Lex was just a great interviewer here .... and just on point
As someone in their early 20s struggling with porn addiction i've been trying to get prime to answer this SPECIFIC QUESTION ever since i've started watching him 2 years ago. thank you, Sex Fridman.
- “idk wtf I’m doing man “ me too Mr Freedman ….me too.
is the most true thing I've ever heard haha. Whether it's water or beer sipping something eases social interactions
- Perseverance
feels live atm
🎉❤ Thank you .
The rant about "work smarter not harder" really rings true (). Thanks agen, that was really motivating to not be afraid to work hard.
- Really resonated with me. I used to feel like I was living life the wrong way because everything I have came from hard work and effort. Great podcast
Yes!!!! So true about any skill. Especailly music and learning languages. Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Fundamentals!!!!
good laugh I never think about starting a career in music. except i do ahave djembe but the culture of the rich and powerful in a ready society, it is what it is.
The edit about his mum is so cute , really shows his character as well.
I thought this was an ad....Naw, God bless him, this dudes awesome
- Netflix
- Groovy
the presumptions on being multi-threaded is funny :)
- Printf() debugging
- Falcor
**Why does the materlize have to create a lot of objects?** atMaybe I don't understand what the **materialize** is excatly.
- Breaking production
- Pieter Levels
@ You could have just repeated that ^^^^
- Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
YouTube must love caching a new popular 5.5hrs video like this one 😂
- ThePrimeagen origin story
Thank you. I hated that about tech, and this is why I watch you. Fun!
- Learning programming languages
- I learned Go through using an AI. I also did exactly what Prime did, by reading the manual. But I started with AI and had it explain to me how my C# can be translated to Go and how things work in the language. After getting that foundation, reading the manual became fun, because I could check off all the things I already knew.
- Best programming languages in 2025
ffmpeg team has a great guide on assembly, writing SIMD by hand often beats compiler optimizations
just for the fun of it, at we are talking about the usage of assembly language at school.
- Python
- HTML & CSS
- Bash
- FFmpeg
- Performance
- Rust
- Epic projects
can somebody link me to the stream please
I think the feature is great, but they should just put that comment at that timestamp and not in the live chat.Maybe 30s max delay to be in live chat. Or some algorithm to put that comment there if its still "visible" (if messages[15] is older than 30 seconds, show in live chat). And add auto catching up like Twitch does (e.g play at 1.1x speed to catch up, but do it gradually so you don't notice)
- Asserts
- ADHD
- Productivity
- Programming setup
Keyboard @
I have been thinking at the beginning I need 2, then 3.. but I stopped at 2 and now. With a good developer setup, your workflow, especially on Linux and Mac, I really just need one like Prime said, just click what you need and there is no distraction on mouse cursor and moving or alt tabbing😁 1 focus at a time is a power, safes a lot of effort of moving focus with eyes in my opinion, might be switching completely to 1 because I like the 1 more for like documentation, or learning if I am watching something and typing notes / coding.
To add to the editor wars, flew over lex's head. Good one
"Sublime and so on are easy to use and half-ass-learn" yes some (*windows users, in the largest majority) people seem to reach for the mouse for even the smallest one-character select - for me personally on the other hand I probably have never been as fast as I used to be in Sublime, hacking PHP at the time. It is just that the shift+((+alt/ctrl)+direction keypresses that you (hopefully) muscle-learned as a newborn in Notepad, Word and EVERY input field you've ever used etc., actually turn out to be a decent foundation to build upon for 80% of tasks. There are just a few shortcuts easily discoverable from menus for the remaining 19%, + 1% use context/mose.
- I'd like to point out that you guys just explained "Work smarter, not harder" in a way that doesn't demean the effort of working hard.
Seat and eye @
ball sit clip and make a short.
- sitting on a ball actually eliminated my back pain almost entirely. You need the right height though. If it’s too tall it’ll kill your knees.
My favorite alternative to a yoga ball is the QOR360 Tilt. Great for the back
- Coffee
- Programming with AI
"The better you are at programming, the less you want to use the AI."This is so true !!!!!
completely soul hardedly agree
Lex evades completely the AI ethics question from ThePrimeagen
- Advice for young programmers
"I avoid certain games because they are too addictive"
"I play skyrim"
- Reddit questions
Resume
- God
this is my favorite part of the video. So truly vulnerable, sincere. Prime is struck by the incomprehensible love of God, and I often feel this myself and can even burst into tears because of it. It feels quite uncomfortable to reflect on because you can feel like you're coming undone, but the Lord gives me that assurance that He is my strength, and I don't need to appear so impressive to mention even though my mind so often convinces me that that's everything
