Jeff Dean: Getting Better at Coding Broadly Improves a Model's Reasoning
dawnsongtweets · x · 2026-09-21
In part 6 of a conversation series, Jeff Dean shares a surprising lesson from building Gemini: getting better at coding can improve reasoning more broadly.
- Coding requires breaking complicated problems into subproblems, working through them, and assembling solutions
- Those capabilities transfer far beyond code
- As AI agents take on complex long-horizon tasks, the coding–reasoning link becomes especially important
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