Sergey Brin, co-founder and former president of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, stated that developing code from scratch these days feels quite difficult in comparison to merely asking AI to do it in a conversation with David Friedberg at the All-In Summit 2024.

“As a test of how good the AI model is at Sudoku, I had an AI model write a bunch of code itself to generate Sudoku puzzles and solve it on its own,” said Brin. “I have written a little bit of code myself just for kicks, just for fun, and sometimes I have had the AI write the code for me, which was fun.”

This took him half an hour and after that he had a debate with developers and they were really impressed. This is when Brin said that “they don’t honestly use the AI tools for their own coding as much as I think they ought to.”

This was in response to Friedberg asking Brin what exactly he does now at Google. The conversation went on to discuss Google’s God Model approach and the race to AGI.

“It’s very helpful to have competition,” said Brin, highlighting that it brings the best models out in the public. “When ChatGPT was launched, we were quite behind and I am really pleased with all the progress we have made,” he added, while explaining that companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral, are moving fast, which is a good thing.