After 7 years, Google DeepMind researcher who bet early on code models departs
xennygrimmato_ · x · 2026-10-02
A researcher who joined Google in 2019 to build models that understand and generate code has left Google DeepMind after seven years. He recalls few shared that conviction back then, and says coding is now democratized and 'will be used to solve everything else.'
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