Quotesby GlyphAndrew Ng quotes on AI, with sources
Founder, DeepLearning.AI · 9 quotes · latest Sep 18, 2026
- First, I don’t see any step up in the risk of human extinction from AI compared to a few months ago.
- Fixing these bugs and putting in place improved monitoring would be appropriate fixes, not pausing AI.
- Pausing AI progress will create much more harm than benefit.
- Similarly, if I prompt an agent and it hacks into someone else’s system, the responsibility lies with me, not the agent.
- While this was technically accurate, as I write this, I have about 1,300 processes running on my laptop.
- When you’re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won’t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec’ed out.
- Now, we focus much less on code and instead focus on deciding what to build, designing the architecture, writing the spec, and verifying outputs.
- A novice who vibe codes without understanding software fundamentals can create simple applications, but this often leads to the coding agent making bad tradeoffs in latency, availability, consistency, reliability, maintainability, simplicity, and/or cost.
- Agentic coding enables many developers who previously played more specialized roles (like front-end developer or mobile developer) to play a broader, full-stack role.
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