- 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
to
smart editor adding that keyboard for context 😶🌫️
is crazy, average prime watcher will know why he is smiling 😆
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.
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.
Prime really tried to dig himself out of saying his wife was mid xd
- “idk wtf I’m doing man “ me too Mr Freedman ….me too.
Lex said he would generally recommend avoiding drugs unless you are a...... (This line cracked me up)
Lex says "I don't have a master". Yeah? Then what is your relationship with Mossad? You think you are equals or something?
is the most true thing I've ever heard haha. Whether it's water or beer sipping something eases social interactions
- Perseverance
The abstract is based on the concrete so if you didn't see the application of something you can't really learn it. Its like asking someone what does color look like when they are color blind. Yes you can explain the abstract concept to the color blind person, but the color blind person would never be able to come up with the concept of color, or to even truly understand color without seeing it first. Alot of educational materials teach only the abstract form of a subject, but that is a big problem. Not only people who learn the abstract way don't understand how to apply it to the real world, but people who can't learn it abstractly, is just that. They cannot learn it abstractly.
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
this made me realize that I must be a genius.
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 love that Lex decided to put this right in the middle. It’s always moms who make our worlds spin ❤
I thought this was an ad....Naw, God bless him, this dudes awesome
- Netflix
C# mentioned!
- 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.
lmao(great guest, much inspiration to gain from a story like his)
- 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 would LOVE to watch Prime try to go through the C++ standard. That's a fucking tome, and I highly doubt you can turn it into useful knowledge even midterm unless you are working on a compiler.
- 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.
There are days where I'd swear that most of the incompetent programmers () work in the healthcare software industry.
- 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
That is not true. Languages, even compiled manual memory handling languages are not equal. Example: std::sort is faster than qsort, simply because function templates keep type information while void* throws it away. Sure, you CAN write specific code for specific types, and in that case C and C++ will be the same speed. But in the general case, some high level features actually speed up execution.
- Rust
WOW so Rust "invented" RAII, which was already invented in C++ 1983? What innovation! One of Prime's obvious faults is that despite claiming to have worked in C++, he knows basically nothing about it. I always chuckle when he thinks smart pointers are a new thing.
- 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 @
what happened to the X windows virtual desktops in snow leopard , what happened to the zoom function in OS 10? Mission control, mission out of control = Apple in 2015 - 2025. lost the plot completely and made it all suck. It’s not like it’s been awhile for them to correct the bugs. No, they’ve introduced bugs. No, they thrown away good technology and replaced it with a load of crap. we got a clean quiet os and made it bloated with a load of nonsense. look at cover flow where is it gone? All of the decent technologies ideas in the Apple os finder are now dead. And most of them ideas weren’t anything to do with Apple to begin with. they just bought them or use them temporarily. They even sacked the guy that made those lovely 3-D icons. That’s how far they’ve come. And that’s why everybody’s using Linux these days
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.
TFW you use a shitty editor (vim) because you don't know how to delete lines in VSCode.
I'm not sure if this is true in any editor with Vim motions, but in Vim, while I'm in INSERT mode I just press Alt and the key from NORMAL mode I want, lets say I am in the middle of a line in INSERT mode and want type in a new line below, I don't hit Esc and then O, just hold Alt and the hit O.
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 don 't learn my editor. Can't afford the IntelliJ suite. Have seen codebases written by people that know their editors wells. It leads to bad code. You can't navigate it without constantly jumping through the code like a mad man. When I write code, I prefer a text editor without syntax highlighting. I need no Syntax Highlight and hate autocomplete. I get anxiety when things turn red. When I write code, you can read it like a book. It follows a sequential flow of thought. It is more like a book and less like a Wikipedia.
- 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
I don't think the statement "the better you are at programming, the less likely you're to use AI" is true. AI excels at building new or prototyping greenfield projects, but not fixing/rewriting existing projects (without bugs). The better you are at programming, the more likely you're to have existing projects that AI can't help with - I think that's the crux of the issue.
"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
