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ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461

ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461

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Kinesis Advantage

Kinesis

“my favorite keyboard”
“keyboard. You're using my favorite keyboard right there. The Kinesis advantage. Uh, save my career. Beautiful keyboard.”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

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Terminal Coffee

Terminal (ThePrimeagen, TJ DeVries et al.)

“you can only SSH into it... It's all really like it's pretty high-end coffee. It tastes really really good.”— ThePrimeagen

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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The Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan (inferred)

“Have you ever read the book uh Wheel of Time? It's 14,000 pages or something like that, but right around page 12,000, Rand has to intentionally kill a girl”— ThePrimeagen
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The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

“I'd eat dinner with the kiddos. I would read them Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. During that time, I'd read to them for a half an hour.”— ThePrimeagen
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The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

“I would read them Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. During that time, I'd read to them for a half an hour.”— ThePrimeagen
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Cursor

Anysphere (inferred)

“cursor is doing a lot of really fascinating stuff on the IDE side, not just sort of generate code and uh like edit that code manually.”— Lex Fridman
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GitHub Copilot

GitHub

“I remember the first time I used it, I got early access to GitHub Copilot. Nat... he sent me early access himself.”— ThePrimeagen
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Devin

Cognition (inferred)

“Devon is just it's it's kind of like the full it's like the full package when it comes to programming. So it's going to have you're going to give it a task and a repo”— ThePrimeagen
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The Social Network

David Fincher (inferred)

“I watched the social network movie. And after that, I was just like, I'm doing a startup. And so like that night, I started my first startup”— ThePrimeagen
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Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker (inferred)

“Netflix um are you familiar with uh the dystopian Black Mirror... Season 1 episode one. Do you know season 1 episode one?”— ThePrimeagen
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Turok 2: Seed of Evil

Iguana Entertainment (inferred)

“Turok 2 was a brutally hard game... It was a badass game, right? And I got it and I put it in and I played every day for like 10 hours a day”— ThePrimeagen
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Yellowstone

Taylor Sheridan (inferred)

“I have an admiration a romantic admiration for like uh for the shows like Yellowstone being out in nature. It's beautiful.”— Lex Fridman
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Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

“That's why I play Skyrim. I can play these games uh or Balders's Gate and moderate my how much I play”— ThePrimeagen
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Baldur's Gate

Larian Studios (inferred)

“That's why I play Skyrim. I can play these games uh or Balders's Gate and moderate my how much I play”— ThePrimeagen
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Civilization

Sid Meier (inferred)

“I'm terrified of Civilization. Like uh I have never played a Siv game because I'm worried... And the new one is actually supposed to be really, really good.”— ThePrimeagen
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Love Is Blind

Netflix (inferred)

“My wife has recently convinced me to watch Love is Blind with her one time... it's just feels like just a disaster of an experiment”— ThePrimeagen