28-year-old AI billionaire’s advice for teens: ‘Spend all of your time’ doing this and you’ll have a ‘huge advantage’

28岁AI亿万富翁给青少年的建议：“把所有时间都投入到这一件事上，你将获得巨大的优势”

Sep 25 2025

Teens dreaming of lucrative tech careers should seize on the opportunity to hone their artificial intelligence skills by immersing themselves in the growing number of AI-powered code generation tools, says billionaire Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang.

亿万富翁、Scale AI联合创始人汪滔（Alexandr Wang）表示，怀揣高薪科技梦想的青少年，应当抓住当下的机遇，全身心投入到不断增长的AI 码生成工具中，以此磨炼人工智能技能。

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“You just have to figure out how to use the tools maximally,” Wang said on a recent episode of the “TBPN” podcast that aired on September 17.

在9月17日播出的最新一期“TBPN”播客节目中，汪滔说：“你只需要弄清楚如何将这些工具发挥到极致。”

When asked for his best advice for young people, Wang said, “it’s impossible to understate the degree to which I’ve been radicalized by AI coding.”

当被问及对年轻人的最佳建议时，汪滔回答说：“AI编程对我的冲击之大，是无论怎样强调都不为过的。”

AI coding, also called “vibe coding,” involves using artificial intelligence to generate original software code simply by typing out commands and instructions. AI coding apps, like Replit and Cursor, allow you to write code, or even develop a new app, without any coding or computer engineering expertise.

AI编程，又称“氛围编程（vibe coding）”，指的是仅通过输入命令或指令，就能借助人工智能生成原创代码。像Replit和Cursor这样的AI编程应用，让用户即使没有编程或计算机工程背景，也能写代码，甚至开发一款新应用。

“It’s actually, in some ways, this incredible moment of discontinuity where, if you just happen to spend, like, 10,000 hours playing with the tools and figuring out how to use them better than other people, that’s a huge advantage,” said Wang, who co-founded Scale AI in 2016 and helped build it into a tech unicorn that was most recently valued at $29 billion.

“在某种意义上，现在正处于一个极具突破性的时刻。如果你愿意投入一万小时来研究这些工具，并掌握比别人更高的使用技巧，那将为你带来巨大的竞争优势。”汪滔说道。2016年，汪滔与合伙人联合创立了Scale AI，并将其打造为估值高达290亿美元的独角兽企业。

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Wang compared the current moment of rapid technological advancement to the early days of the computer revolution, when people like “the Bill Gates’ of the world” capitalized on being early adopters of computers and software.

汪滔将当前的技术飞跃比作计算机革命的早期阶段，当时，比尔·盖茨们率先抓住计算机和软件的机会。

Indeed, the Microsoft co-founder has said he spent his teen years sneaking out of his parents’ house at night to spend hours learning to write software code, thanks to a fortuitous arrangement he had with a local Seattle company that gave him free computer access.

事实上，微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨曾回忆，他十几岁时常常深夜偷偷溜出家门，花上数小时学习编程。当时，因为一个偶然的契机，西雅图一家公司免费为盖茨提供计算机使用权限。

Wang believes this era’s teens would be wise to follow Gates’ approach by spending as much time as possible learning to use AI coding tools: “That moment is happening right now — and if you are, like, 13 years old, you should spend all of your time vibe coding,” he said on the podcast. “That’s how you should live your life.”

汪滔认为，如今的青少年若能效仿盖茨的做法，将受益匪浅。他在播客中说：“这一时刻正在发生，如果你大约13岁，你就应该把所有时间都花在氛围编程上。这才是你应当度过青春的方式。”

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AI’s coding ability will match Wang’s ‘within the next five years’ 

AI的编码能力将在“未来五年内”达到汪滔的水平

Wang has an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion, according to Forbes, and was poached by Meta in June to serve as chief AI officer. Despite his massive success and standing in the industry, even Wang believes that “literally all the code I’ve written in my life … will be able to have been produced by an AI model within the next five years,” he told “TBPN.”

据《福布斯》报道，汪滔的个人财富估计为32亿美元，他在6月份被Meta挖角，出任首席AI官。尽管在业界成就斐然，汪滔在《TBPN》节目中也坦言：“我这辈子写过的所有代码……在未来五年内，AI模型都能完成。”

The idea of AI programs potentially being able to replicate the work of even the best coders in the world is already feeding concerns about software programming remaining a promising career choice. Companies are already increasing their use of AI coding programs, and in some cases using them to replace human programmers.

AI程序或许能够复制全球顶尖程序员的工作，这一前景已经引发外界担忧：软件编程是否仍是一个值得长期投入的职业？一些公司已经在加大AI编程工具的使用，部分场景中甚至用它们来取代人类程序员。

But Wang and others in the industry still believe in the value of teens learning programming skills, especially in concert with familiarizing themselves with relevant AI tools that can potentially help maximize those skills.

不过，汪滔以及业内不少人士依然坚信青少年学习编程技能依旧重要，尤其是结合AI工具，能够将技能潜力发挥到最大化。

“As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!” Andrew Ng, co-founder of the Google Brain research lab, wrote in a LinkedIn post in March, adding: “One of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you.”

“随着编程变得更加简单，应该有更多人学习编程，而不是更少!”谷歌大脑联合创始人吴恩达（Andrew Ng）今年3月在领英上写道。他补充说：“未来最重要的能力之一，就是能精准表达你想要让计算机完成的任务，让它替你执行。”

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Ng called this “the best time yet to learn to code,” noting in the post that workers with strong coding skills will be able to use AI coding tools more effectively than anyone else, making them desirable to employers who are already seeking out employees with AI skills. And, while anyone can use AI tools to generate code and create new apps and startups, entrepreneurs “who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding” are able to communicate what they want AI to build “much more precisely” than anyone else can, Ng added.

吴恩达称，现在是“学习编程的最佳时机”。他指出，具备扎实编程技能的劳动者，能够比他人更高效地运用AI编程工具，因此更受那些渴求AI技能人才的企业青睐。他还强调，尽管任何人都可以借助AI 工具生成代码、开发应用，甚至创办公司，但“具备编程知识、真正理解软件语言”的创业者，能够比他人更准确地与AI 沟通，清晰表达自身需求，从而释放出更强的生产力。