Extropic Founder: LLMs Are Returning Software Engineering to Physicists and Mathematicians
beffjezos · x · 2026-08-09
Guillaume Verdon, founder of Extropic, echoed a perspective on how large language models are reshaping computer science. The view suggests that as LLMs automate much of traditional software engineering, the field's center of gravity is shifting away from manual code writing and returning to deeper theoretical thinking, mathematical insight, and systems-level reasoning—bringing it back to the domain of physicists, mathematicians, and electrical engineers.
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