Scale AI's Alexandr Wang: 13-year-olds should spend 10,000 hours vibe coding
ZeYanjie · x · 2026-09-21
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang said on a podcast that if you're 13 today, you should spend all your time vibe coding — 10,000 hours of it — to build a massive future competitive advantage.
The retweeter, a 10+ year systems engineer, found the claim jarring at first but concedes the engineer moat has been restructured: what differentiates people going forward is no longer syntax memorization or interview prep (elaborated in the thread).
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