UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World Wide Web still exist online? Can someone still learn programming if they hate math? How do new programming languages get made? Why is debugging harder than writing code? How can computer scientists contribute to CRISPR? Professor Chasins answers these questions any many more on this episode of WIRED Tech Support: Coding Support.
0:00 Coding Support
0:16 Remnants of the early web
1:04 y so hard
1:21 Can I still learn programming if I hate math?
2:09 The first computer viruses
2:39 How did programmers code the first ever code?
4:10 The difference between programming languages
5:21 What would you say…you do here
5:58 Python
6:27 C + +
6:45 Beloved Rust
7:52 JavaScript: GOATED?
8:16 How programming languages get made
9:12 01101000 01100001 01101000 01100001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100
10:47 Why is debugging harder than writing code?
11:44 Syntax
12:08 Backend, frontend or full-stack?
12:27 How can computer scientists contribute to CRISPR?
13:32 How hard would it be to build my own game engine from scratch?
14:49 ChatGPT
17:31 Is it worth learning to code with AI advancing so fast?
19:10 What is the best way of using Al while coding?
20:19 “Vibe coding”
21:19 Live coding demonstration
28:22 How do I read code?
29:22 How do computers “understand” code?
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Sarah Chasins
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White; Paul Guylas
Production Manager: Jonathan Rinkerman
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Nick Massey
Sound Mixer: Gloria “Glo” Hernandez
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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@thexlack
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 pm
I’ll wait for the 2 hour long Prime reaction vid
@inkdropsonroses
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 pm
This professor seems like the kind that wants everyone to love the subject and would help all her students to pass her class!
I had a professor when I took a computer science course in uni that was totally okay with students failing because “coding is hard”.
Needless to say I prefer this professor so much more. I wish I could be in her class!
Also, notice when she talks about ChatGPT and LLMs she says “words that look good together”, NOT “words that are correct together” because AI models were built on stolen documents humans wrote.
@omegafighters
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 pm
First question of the video: LaTeX joke.
🤣
@elendal
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 pm
A few years ago I had to write zeroes and ones in C because there was a bug in Z/OS assembler generated code for one of the intrinsics (MDOIO/OR 29,29,29).
@out_of_distribution
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 pm
I agree that it is still important to have people specialize in conventional programming. “AI” is only as useful as our understanding of what we are asking it to do, and there is no more precise way to describe what we want than by using programming languages, or other formal languages. This level of precision matters a lot for everyday software products that we know and love. Natural language programming (aka vibe coding) is limited by the precision of English or whatever naturally evolved language you happen to speak.
@vivianneserendipia9478
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 pm
Okay I’m getting into rust 🌚🌝
@ahmetardakavakci
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 pm
i think %99 of the people here watching this are not new to programming
@hfsaito
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 pm
19:10 if you are asking this, you shouldn’t be using AI at all and learn how to code
@temposh15
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 pm
i wanna listen to a sweaty fat guy with the skin tone of copy paper. that dude i trust
@Flrere
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 pm
24:00 Why not `for country_code in fewer_country_codes:`?
@Cracktune
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Yo. This was fun, esp the x86 assembly example at the end!
@oldcowbb
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 pm
rust propaganda
@orionh5535
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 pm
5:20
What zone does javascript fall into? :p
@sjferguson
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 pm
I always watch these episodes, even if it’s something that doesn’t really interest me because I almost always learn something new. This one is the exception. I knew going in I probably wouldn’t like it because I know absolutely nothing about coding. I was right. It was WAY over my head and if I’m being completely honest, difficult to watch. I appreciate the effort and I’m sure many people enjoyed this episode but unfortunately I’m not the target audience 😂
@charlesteton
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Jeepers!!! To the editor, don’t put text on screen and then remove it immediately, it’s not readable! FFS.
@domitnate1997
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 pm
You know she’s a pythoner when she counts 1-10 as 0-9
@blackchaos853
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 pm
Switch analogy for why we use base 2 was great
@bobweiram6321
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Wrong. The inventor of the web was Ted Nelson. Tim Berners-Lee created a simpler version of the Xanadu web browser. Rust is falls flat on its face when compared to Ada which has been around since 1983.
@Kasumi_JC
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 pm
How she explained reading code made me think “Wibbky Wobbkly ,Timey Wimey.” and then she mentioned time travel in coding.
@mzimmma
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Misleading title, “Wannabe answers your questions “ 😂😂😂
@DarGombes-m9i
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 pm
your hands are shaking. are you nervous? 😆
@davidfaiheng
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 pm
This is the most computer science looking computer science professor in the history of computer science
@santiagoferrari1973
December 9, 2025 at 8:23 pm
are you into back end intercourse? that many rings indicate that
@S3MTX
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 pm
21:15 have a strange feeling that’s because they realized there was a tool to make their job easier, so they got lazier and slacked off more.
@TroyNiemeier
December 9, 2025 at 8:25 pm
7:52, if you feel “locked into JS,” you may be doing JS the wrong way. TS is WAAAAY more locked in….hahaha
@rofljao
December 10, 2025 at 6:17 pm
I wish I had this professor when I studied comp sci! Very good stuff.
@Osrs2024
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 pm
ai training is shadow clones inside the hyperbolic time chamber
@juliocesartcasanova1055
December 10, 2025 at 6:23 pm
ragebait on thumbnail
@jujenshrestha7584
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 pm
printf(“This is why we use Rust now 😂😂😂”);
@ilanao5824
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 pm
I LOVE CODING YIPPEE
@ilanao5824
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 pm
wow this stuff is really confusing
@shadout
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 pm
There may be contention about javascript, but the wording of the question shows the questioner’s attitude. No one I’ve listened to when they talk down javascript have shown to have no reason. They all had reasons whether you would agree with them or not. If the questioner asked what reasons they had, then it would be a genuine question and not a fixed mentality of “I like it, and anyone who disagrees is wrong.”
@twavvcat
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 pm
omg three seconds in and i can see the JOY on her face as she tells us that the first website ever created is still available––– i’m hooked
@stacylitwin1466
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 pm
This is fascinating even though it’s way over my head, love her excitement
@AbdulrahmanTailakh
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 pm
Great video!!
@MichaelPohoreski
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 pm
7:52 *NEVER answered WHY parts of JavaScript are utter garbage.* Telling people to go learn another language is _disingenuous_ because people need to know WHY some languages are better (or worse) depending *on the context of the problem* one is solving.
* There is no way to have ANY control over the garbage collector (GC).
* One CAN’T turn off the garbage collector (GC) when JavaScript is running.
* The GC is non-deterministic.
* It doesn’t have soft real-time or hard real-time constraints.
@indigochildrenkilledusall
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 pm
NOPE BAD PROGRAMMER BAD
NO VARIABLES JUST CALLED DATA lol
@vinodmathew3036
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Everybody loves Rust and then go back and write javascript for paying bills.
@mattrognstad
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 pm
She did an awesome job!
@muhammadabdullah7756
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 pm
How this face on these glasses looking
@FuckinChuck
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 pm
Not using vim? Blasphemy.
@deagin3830
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 pm
Im a web development lead for a structural engineering company and i loved your cross domain krispr answer.
Understanding the engineers, their taxonomy, calculations, perspective. It’s a massive part of my job and I have interns I am always stressing cross domain osmosis too
@zbeubzbeub2133
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 pm
Really interesting but I kept being distracted by how stunning she is
@dabeamer42
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 pm
I gotta say that Professor Chasins and Simone Giertz look an awful lot alike.
@MySharif1
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 pm
On the math point, I find it funny, since usually you don’t need that much math, if anything, you just need the formulas most of the time, since typically, you’re making the code do the actual math for you.
@randomdude12370
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm
She’s actually doing a fantastic job of explaining everything. Amazing!
@foo0815
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Should we really be thankful to a person inventing a abdomination like Cobol?
@spectrum1448
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 pm
She’s seems like she’d be a really pleasant teacher to have
@inang1968
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 pm
5:55 and they say its a good job for introverts 😅 so many meetings and emails and so little coding and debugging
@BeeeShoe
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Your fingers are so long, is it because of typing a lot?
@thehuggz-i9k
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 pm
The most useful way I’ve implemented AI in my development process is in the design. I don’t trust the design it helps me with 100%, and the code it provides is often useless, but it’s good at helping identifying the moving pieces needed to achieve the end goal and I can fill in the nitty gritty. To reference another programming methodology, I’ve started using AI as my rubber ducky.
@hellstrom999
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 pm
Her hand is shaking so much! I hope she is ok health wise! She is so passionate and seems to have so much to give…
@mikets42
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 pm
I would not hire her. She does not understand that there is no difference between software engineering and “normal” engineering and that engineering is not for everyone.
Why does software exist? Because It is much easier to implement a software solution then a hardware one due to the ease of debugging. You have full reproducibility. You can stop program execution at any time, look at the registers and variables, etc. You can debug the program at simulator before you run it on the target. And so on.
Expert programmers do coding but the focus is not on syntaxis/languages/etc. When you wrote ISRs in bare-metal hard-real-time multitasking in a system comprised of hundreds of mutually-inter-dependent processors, and then spent months of catching a transient timing problem to find out that some alternatively gifted programmer “improved” register saving during context switch … you learn that what she (and others alike) teaches has nothing to do with real world.
@hydrothermalworm7778
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 pm
Hey that’s my motherboard!
@ian.mwirigi
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 pm
she is a nerd… I already love her 🤍
@RobotAliens-official
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 pm
She’s doing an excellent job with this. Right on.
@_mball_
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 pm
Sarah is a treasure and I feel lucky to have folks like her as a colleague.
@CarlSagan6
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 pm
I have never been more attracted to a woman
@cjbautista-mendoza5917
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 pm
Protect this woman at all costs
@stoneageprogrammer432
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 pm
You are insanely hot.
@TaylorLopez412
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 pm
Great talk! Thanks for sharing some REALLY good information with such enthusiasm. It’s very clear you love this topic, and it’s also very clear that you’re good at it!
@sleekantonio
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 pm
They should have add a question if she’s single god she’s cute doing coding
@DoubleHelixStrand
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 pm
I hate that so many people want AI to do everything for them. Why would you even exist at that point.
@TTCIG
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 pm
10/10, would……… write some rusty code together…
@hectorurdiales4570
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 pm
9:45 This is the first time I see an explanation for why binary that I can actually share with non-cs people. Thanks!
@daniel19dj
December 11, 2025 at 5:16 pm
her IQ is over 200
@sirnickity
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 pm
I know the “LLMs are just predictive text at a grand scale” analogy is common, but I think it’s also very misleading. LLMs are not simply souped-up Mad Libs. If they were, they would produce output that reads like valid text, but make no sense at all.
They’re looking not only at statistical likeliness that various words are paired together (which would have uselessly high correlation with words like “and” and “the” to anything else), but also a way of identifying the _meaning_ of those words — individually and in-context — and finding concepts that are related. There is actual _perception_ happening, which is way more sophisticated than just picking the word that most commonly follows the last four.
In short, these things actually DO understand. (Don’t take my word for it. See Geoffrey Hinton’s interview with Jon Stewart.)
We are hitting constraints in processing power and memory that limit how far we can take this, but we’re already capable of eloquent lingual skills, understanding and producing spoken language, identifying objects in images (including sequences of images, aka video), and generating images that depict a world that is increasingly convincing. We cannot yet maintain a lifetime’s worth of experience persistence, but we can make up for that by being able to consume a an era’s worth of media in a very short time.
The time to AGI is really a function of how quickly we can overcome limitations in materials that allow us to contain and index exponentially larger data sets in periods of time that are adequately responsive, for the task at hand. It could already do more than it does, but we want an answer _now,_ and we have to share the compute time with thousands of other users, so we have to limit how long we’re willing to let it consider what it’s going to say.
To conclude, it may feel “limited” right now, but it is a _remarkable_ achievement, and it is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s a very, very big deal.
@justayoutuber1906
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 pm
She’s a Berkeley CS professor??? She looks so young!
@GeeqDoubt
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 pm
When she unironically said she’s a “python fan” that’s when I *knew* y’all got the right programmer for this video. 🫶🙏🫡
@WanJae42
December 11, 2025 at 6:06 pm
The advice here is good, although I would point out that some of the comments made about programming “languages” actually are more about the programming “environment” (IDE, compiler, runtime expectations, etc) than the language itself. It’s important for new devs to understand that distinction.
@BustaCheeze
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 pm
The level of knowledge and enthusiasm is inspiring
@JasonPatz
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 pm
This presenter explains things so clearly. I love it!
@Stephen-gk3ds
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm
What a babe
@UCF10-LS400
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 pm
What an adorable looking PILF
@ghazanfarshah1124
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm
I love how passionate she is about computer science. She clearly loves it. You can see it on her face.
@antonkoshkin2234
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 pm
I like that kinky random motherboard posing nude on top of “A Tour of C++” for no particular reason. Bad girl 😈
@v3i1ix
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 pm
I think this is what most tech women employees imagine themselves to be lol
great vid. really learned a lot.
@arclitegames
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 pm
“How did programmers code the first ever code” She proceeds to talk about nothing but American history, completely leaving out British accomplishments. She mentions the ENIAC, but not the Colossus, which was the first non-general purpose programmable computer. It’s especially wild that she mentioned programming with punch cards, but nothing about it’s origin. She’s clearly proud of Grace Hopper being a famous programmer that was also a woman, but apparently she doesn’t care about Ada Lovelace, the woman that literally invented programming.
@invox_in_your_inbox
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 pm
I gotta admit, I got lost a couple of times, and COMPLETLY lost towards the end.
She reminds me of a girlfriend I once had that was also in Computer Science… She tried to explain this to me, but I couldn’t do it to save my life. 😅
@SwervingLemon
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 pm
6:06 – Python has become so much more performant lately… It’s still not as fast as a lot of lower-level languages but it’s so good now that it really doesn’t matter.
@DavidMertz
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Dan Callahan, speaking at PyCon 2018, originated the quote “Python is the second best language for everything.” It is very much praise, and not at all a dig.
@Mr152008
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 pm
1:30 – Why is she shaking?
@DeadKaspar
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 pm
JS goated? It’s a mess, together with the whole node ecosystem
@halloesmark
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 pm
Really good video! Loved the enthusiasm and variety of topics covered!
@kingsleyebubeonoh7546
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 pm
2:22 why is her hand shivering?
Is she okay?
@chrisanerton
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 pm
proof that com sci professors can be hot
@JTWebMan
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 pm
The vibe coding she go a little wrong! I think the answer it is a tool. AI can make you much faster if you already have experience and understand the tradeoffs. If you don’t understand what it is returning it is slower for sure as it isn’t always going to do what you think it is doing. They are getting really good though and that line has blurred a lot in the last 6 months!
@EhNothing
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 pm
If you want to be a successful developer in 2025, you better learn to communicate with people. You’re not going to sit down at an IDE, open the next ticket in the queue, code it, and then do that again with the next one for 8 hours. You have to be able to communicate with users/product owners.
@CptnCanuckShow
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 pm
Simone Giertz’ equally wholesome twin
@henrihelvetica
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 pm
0:09 coding support -or- tech Support ?
@theantonlulz
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 pm
I don’t get it. Coding and computer science have very little to do with each other. Does she have a background as a programmer or something?
@ChadWoolley
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 pm
No, you do not have to be good at math to be a programmer. I have been a professional programmer for 35 years. I am pretty good at it. I am NOT good at math. I regularly make mistakes counting and in basic arithmetic. You DO need to be logical, disciplined, methodical, and persistent.
@ChadWoolley
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Grace Hopper is GOATed, along with Margaret Hamilton and Barbara Liskov. Great women with great contributions to modern computing.
@whatsmyprintedname
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 pm
Please bring her back or is there another way to follow her because this means so much more sense than all the stuff I have tried to figure out through YouTube videos over the past 5 years. And I love our energy so much. Thanks you
@JackSparrow-z3l3s
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 pm
The only programmers who enjoy JS either have never used literally any other language, or hate themselves deeply
@NostraDavid2
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 pm
> How do you guys remember all the syntax?
I know how to read BNF – a language to define languages. I can just read the BNF of Python and somewhat grasp how it’s structured.
@JaredBrown_hkuspgtr
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 pm
.NET Core…
@craigsparton
December 12, 2025 at 6:56 pm
This was an excellent video. The explanation of why computers use binary is similar to how I’ve imagined explaining it to someone and is a very important concept to understand.
@in6darkness6forever6
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 pm
really interesting, I was drinking every word she said. I really want to start coding more
@gigs1890
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 pm
“The Zero-eth, then the first, then the third” ah yes counting lol
@juliab.grenier898
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 pm
I like how she teaches so much. Wish I could have her as my Professor.
@Trannosaur
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 am
As a programmer, truly in envy of the communication skills here.
@Trannosaur
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 am
the light bulb example !!!!
@LordTrousers
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 am
“How should I use ChatGPT?”
“Don’t.”
@yuramayYEE
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 am
JavaScript date is the best
@friendlydemon6984
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 am
I am concerned, why does her hands shaking like that?
@Ihsnetad
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 am
5:20 This is also why the notion of replacing developers with coding AI is stupid – writing code is only 10% of the job. The remaining 90% of the job is figuring out the end goal.
@ChrimleOfficial
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 pm
JavaScript is literally what is wrong with the Tech Industry.
@Remmeeee
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Imagine if programmers didnt start at 0 and it was all 1s and 2s instead of 1s and 0s 💀
@jesustyronechrist2330
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 pm
They must’ve hunted for a female coding professor for months
@johnnybravo964
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 pm
99.99% of all the lines that all coders write will have been written 1000’s to millions of times before. Writing unique code is very rare. So I don’t agree with her assessment that AI is not good to use for programming. The professor is probably just saying it because she teaches programming, so saying to people to just use AI will make her lose students.. Also the LLM’s are just going to keep getting better at it, so I would say to one should definitely use it. Just make sure to check the code and test throughly.
@avocadoes4619
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Goated is not a word…
@II_Emilia_II
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 pm
I wish professor Sarah was my professor. I understood so much 🙂
@NerdLifeChoice
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 pm
I totally get why she is a professor. Professorship deserves her and her students are a lucky bunch. 🎉
@jczeigler
December 13, 2025 at 2:22 pm
That comment about spending time with the users such as the biology team is so spot on!
@jczeigler
December 13, 2025 at 2:25 pm
The amount of linear algebra you need to know to be an effective low level 3D graphics programmer is on par with quantum mechanics. But really, it is doable.
@reed6514
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 pm
I wish she’d mentioned different paradigms, like functional programming languages, when talking about why some languages are harder than others.
@nalen5050
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 pm
that explanation of binary with base 10… weird. transistor has 2 state. one is represented by 0, the second is represented by 1. end of the explanation.
@mito88
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 pm
goated or bloated?
@ItsyoboiJosh
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 pm
Why the motherboard on the side?
@siddharthsinghtanwar2043
December 13, 2025 at 3:07 pm
what laptop is she using? It is not an apple right?
@mobe-l8
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 pm
she got the programmer aesthetic on point. No apple watch in 2025 is rare.
@LexieAssassin
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Note on the whole computer binary thing: I learned a few weeks ago that the Soviet Union built and operated a few balanced ternary (-1/False, 0/Unknown, +1/True) computers, but the more main stream folks working on binary computers didn’t like it even though it showed great promise. So, unfortunately, it didn’t catch on.
@adawnofjustice
December 13, 2025 at 6:33 pm
I think you missed the bookkeeping niche, a lot of people in Pakistan here are making a lot of money just by providing simple bookkeeping services.
@curtisbme
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 pm
Did not know that @simonegiertz had a sister!
@ThatOneDudeNick
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 pm
I didn’t care about programing and now I care about programing.
@jcat1420
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 pm
She yaps a lot but not much real info comes out
@PartiyushKumar-t9l
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
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@DHAPEARNING
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
I scrolled past tons of people swearing by Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl, calling it the book “they” don’t want us reading. I was skeptical at first, but I finally gave it a chance. Honestly? I’m pissed I didn’t read it sooner. Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl forced me to rethink everything I thought I knew about money. It really is worth the hype.
@SarahTembo-c4p
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
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@KamalaumaryusufUmaryusuf
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
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@gulsiyarKhan-h8m
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
I always felt like I was doing everything “right”—working hard, saving, avoiding debt—but somehow I stayed stuck in the same place year after year. Then I read Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl, and it honestly felt like someone finally explained the part of the system everyone conveniently leaves out. It wasn’t motivational talk or generic finance tips. It was uncomfortable truth, the kind that makes you rethink your entire life. By the time I finished it, I realized why this book isn’t mainstream: it tells you exactly how the game is set up and why most people never get ahead. If you’ve ever felt like something about money just didn’t add up, this book will make everything click.
@Mystic_Chinnu
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 am
I thought I understood how money worked until I read Smart Broke Dumb Rich by Zor Veyl. It didn’t motivate me, it exposed me. It showed me the rules nobody ever talks about. After that, nothing about wealth looked the same.
@heavens2mergatroid
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 am
1:55 it’s not all math….. The rest is formal logic!
@heavens2mergatroid
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 am
It’s less the coding and more the wearing khaki, answering emails, cube life, and meetings just to have other meetings that made me switch careers
@rd-um4sp
December 14, 2025 at 11:26 am
19:12 you Luddite! don’t you see you are harming progress?!
seriously, though: my friend uses genAI to code all the time. Caveat? he’s been writing code for 25+ years now.
on the other side, I was offered an intern who “loves” coding with genAi. And I had to say Thank you but no!
@EvanWeeks
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 pm
The answer at 5:22 hurts so much, because it’s true. Got into software in the 90s because I love solving technical problems and the whole idea of “teaching computers how to do things,” and my career has been spent doing quite a lot less of that than I’d like and quite a lot more dealing with office politics, campaigning to get projects funded and green-lit, managing projects, etc. Sigh. I wish I could just build fun things and have someone pay me for it, lol.
@raniariffat8094
December 14, 2025 at 12:21 pm
whys she shaking at 1:33
@gonace
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Rust has notoriously bad error handling though, it is amazing but not flawless and is not always the best choice, just like any other commonly used language out there.
AI is a good tool to summarize documentation and is one of few things I, a software engineer for 20 years, use it.
I would claim that it’s not really important what language you learn first, you’ll end up learning a lot during your carrier.
@crayoniii
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 pm
Does anybody know what watch she’s wearing?
@andrearaimondi882
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Is it always this difficult? Nope, it gets WORSE over time 😆😆😆 the difference is that with experience you learn to learn. 😊
@wingit7335
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 pm
Yeah i love javascript. Looking forward to watching this video. Thank you.
@halo231halo
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 pm
god i just click as soon as i saw javascript XD
@halo231halo
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 pm
10 years and never thought about searching about the first website… yeah, this vid was needed. She fit perfectly for this vid. Great vibes XD <3
@halo231halo
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 pm
5:20 …my god, perfect question, perfect response.
@StephenDuMont100
December 14, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Tell them about wobbler virus.
@neilchatterjeegenerate4439
December 14, 2025 at 2:56 pm
Totally off topic but I *LOVE* her watch. It’s incredible.
@pannafritta
December 14, 2025 at 4:50 pm
Wow! what a refreshing lesson. I think she explains things in such a clear and direct way, without losing herself in the details but also keeping things accurate. I learned a lot!
@roharbaconmoo
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Adorable
Look at this one doing computers
@BitFlipper-u4u
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 pm
I agree with javascript being the GOAT
@fizzyroom
December 14, 2025 at 7:20 pm
As a female CS student who has voluntarily transferred out all classes that were headed by a female “professor,” and opted instead to be in classes with male professors, I think I’ll be skipping this video. It’s harder to fool yourself about the special privileges received by certain groups when you’re in those groups and receive it too. It kind of disillusions you about certain people in certain positions.
@TheKurwidolek
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 pm
I like how her hands shake, she takes responsibility for what she’s talking about, and it mean it’s important. Kudos, do more of this stuff.
@shink303
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 am
has she tried aistudio? i’m building apps with no code!
@Wez_wolf
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 am
💯 about programming not being what programmers do all day. As much as we’d like to there is a lot of research, collaboration and trying to understand what the client actually wants😂
@dorukilhan4329
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 pm
1. She is a AI hater. 2. All codes are pre-planned , questions were given before .No one codes this perfect
@sacashi333
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 pm
This person knows almost nothing about AI
@pengwin_
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 pm
someone drank a lot of caffeine
@g23g
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 pm
As a programmer with 15 years of experience I can say that she did great
@bryanshortall787
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 pm
I wonder if r/learnPython was asking how to read code behind the applications that are running on his computer. They may not understand that the program being run on the computer has been compiled into machine code, and so the underlying programming language that was used to write the program has been lost. You can use a disassembler to help make the compiled machine code slightly more readable, but that’s not going to be likely to get you what you’re after (it’s still going to be extremely difficult to understand, and won’t look anything like what the original programmer wrote). Unfortunately, once the “code” the programmer writes is compiled, the original “code” is lost. The programmer will still have it, but it won’t be present in the application you install and run on your computer.
@user-cz8ov2gd7i
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 pm
liking Python is a skill issue
@zvxcvxcz
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 pm
But TypeScript is also trash…
@kingtizzy007
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 pm
AI taking coding jobs now and much more in the near future.
@vak9779
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 pm
who tf said javascript is goated ? its like english language, 3 different guys in a trench coat pretending to be one person
@gilbertf
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 pm
The unicornlang example is fun but a little too vague. I would use Rockstar as an example: “what if I wanted to write code that looks like hard rock lyrics?” and then continue the example like you did. Because transpiling to an existing, solid language and using it’s compiler to get to executable code really is a great way to do it which is suprisingly uncommon.
Follow-up question: would you consider compiling to byte-code (Java or .NET) or Webassembly the same strategy as transpiling to Rust, or would you consider it closer to regular compilation to assembly code?
@kxta-us
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Rust is the new Ruby on Rails.
@sergmont
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 pm
kudos for finding the only articulated programmer in the planet
@yurilsaps
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 pm
Best episode ever!!
@Scottytom1
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Like this comment if you love her glasses <3
@Jipptomilly
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 pm
The thumbnail saying Javascript is the GOAT language had me triggered a bit.
Also, while Typescript is leagues better, I’d recommend using React.
@allengillis2636
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 pm
No love for C#. No worries. Still a great video.
@NoVamp3499
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 pm
> The very first computer, that we all sort of recognize as a computer, the ENIAC, actually used base 10.
The very first computer, that actually was the very first computer, the Z3, actually used 22bit floats.
@factorfitness3713
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 pm
JavaScript fans are sociopaths.
@Tommyrev2732
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 pm
this is great but coding is dead, ive been in it 15 years. Great hobby. Not the future
@lb7-98
December 15, 2025 at 6:46 pm
The timestamp really said ‘haha nerd’… okay then 😭
@starpetalarts6668
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 pm
9:10 I want to correct this information because it isn’t up to date.
Computers are using Qubits now just not general purpose these qubits have 3 values 0, 1, 0/1 the reason this is used is because the 0/1 can get superposed and have multiple gigabytes packaged onto a single bit.
If you want to read more I consider looking up the Google Willow processor.
@OoTheSpecialistoO
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 pm
haha nerd
@maelstrom57
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 pm
Chicks always like Python cuz it’s kinda like programming for dummies.
@xDurendalx
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 pm
new crush type unlocked: nerdy girl that talks about history tech stuff. 😳
@nickm3210
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 pm
cool rust commercial
@ellenlau8883
December 15, 2025 at 10:10 pm
I understood close to nothing, but I really liked her energy and hapiness in explaining things. Saw until the end because of that smile!
@Aci_yt
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 am
My favorite part about Javascript is that “0” is equal to 0.
MEGA useful
(Especially since you can still use === if you’re particular about it)
@thenerrdpit7441
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 am
30:42 as a syntactician of human language who never dabbled in computational linguistics, this was so fun to see! i went: “AH-HA! there is the ‘linguistics’ part of ‘computer/computational linguistics !!’” so cool.
@KyleStanfield
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 am
You missed the best thing about Rust… actual documentation at all, let alone documentation that makes sense and is easily searchable.
@cee-dee345
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 am
Great vid!❤ such energy.. imagine a Professor Sarah Chasins and Dan Schiffman colab 😅
@MarcelaBovio
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 am
That last question took me right back to compiler class a couple of decades ago in school 😄 Loved her enthusiasm, she seems like a wonderful teacher.
@jawad8180
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 am
Has someone noticed that all of the videos of her hands, especially the left one, were shaking?
@borjovsky3164
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 am
She’s cute! But I would recommend to change those glasses…
@DannyMertens-u7c
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 am
Why typescript exist, if javascript was good? If javascript was good enough typescript wasnt needed, and so much used.
@85Portar
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 am
9:00 , she’s actually describing a transpiler here since it’s a high level language that transforms into another high level language before it’s compiled
@DannyMertens-u7c
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 am
In how many years we will get the next step in AI? Not only based on a large language model, but more a large video model. Where the model is loaded with tons of videos. For example a car producer like Toyota delivers for lots of people who fixes that specific car models professionaly a headset with software to record what they are doing and why for each problem they find in a car (for each model). Feed all that information into a model. And then you can create an AI that can teach /correct/ check all new car mechanics very easy what to do (with augmented reality glasses, with camara and mic/sound can show and tell you how and what to do and react on problems that occur)
@shoopapi
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 am
amazing how you are able to transform complex concepts into something very easy to understand in a matter of seconds.
@elSteeler
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 am
I thought it was white Melissa Villaseñor in the thumbnail. Melissa Villamister, if you will.
@mokoboko2482
December 16, 2025 at 11:27 am
what a joke what a sick joke lmao
@mana24
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 pm
if this was my professor I wouldn’t have dropped out of college
@CmdrRob
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 pm
omg the next time someone asks me ‘are you afraid AI will replace you as a software engineer’ I don’t have to explain why not anymore! I can just give them this video! Huzzah!
@GreyPaSM
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 pm
I throw up in my mouth any time someone calls themselves a “Coder” and the I see them with a MacBook.
@RenderingUser
December 17, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Why?
@obedmonsalve
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Am I the only one whose mind wandered to an inappropriate place during the light dimmer switch example?
@nevingraves8467
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 pm
I appreciate that the actual expert reminds us that we really don’t have a good excuse to use AI.
@iluvsyrniki
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 pm
Thanks WIRED for the pleasant surprise hidden in that binary timestamp🤓
@geoffschnoogs6888
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 pm
Adds “JavaScript is GOATED” guy to my list of people to never hire.
@Sales-ki7lx
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 pm
Rust mentioned
@kenpachizero
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 pm
but what motherboard is that?
@tranongtruclam2250
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 am
it’s not easy to teach computer science in a way that’s both clear and genuinely exciting, but you do it exceptionally well. Kudos to you, Professor. I truly hope I’ll have the opportunity to study at your class one day.
@nobnobnobnob
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 am
10:47 Why is debugging harder than writing code? – Because people think writing code is easy, until the requirements of what you’re doing grows.
@faisalmehmood5375
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 am
“have your back”. NO, memory management is the responsibility of the developer, as it is THAT important. I would never use a language that gave that up to the compiler.
@RenderingUser
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 pm
“No, I will not use a garlic press, I will use a knife to cut garlic”
@nibali2762
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 am
Rust propaganda detected ‼️
@bentels5340
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 am
She’s a CS professor at Berkeley? What is she, twelve???
I feel very, very old right now….
@Imperial_Squid
December 17, 2025 at 7:39 am
7:03 shout out in particular to Rust’s error messages, one nice thing they do is not only tell you what line an error occurred on, but where in that line it happened (which can be useful if you have a line of code doing lots of things all in one go). In fact this feature was so beloved that it quickly got added to the python codebase so you see the same information when you get an error in python too!
@nachoperezgullermo5636
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 am
Sarah looking high AF, representing us developers 🤣🤣
@Xelopheris
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 am
9:12 – My go to explanation for why computers use 0s and 1s is simple. They don’t. Computers use voltage on or off, and we use 0s and 1s to represent that voltage. We can use binary numbers to then represent combinations of voltages on several lines all at once.
@diealoneceo
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 am
Hate it for no reason? My brother in christ, we have reasons.
@jordanedwards3114
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 am
i like programming cuz i hate math…so i simply make the computer do it
@CodeMind0
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 am
Her hands shakes like crazy, i hope she’s doing alright
@OsRG12
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 pm
If I had a teacher that was as passionate as her teaching any subject (or passionate sounding) I would have enjoyed my classes
@zapl80
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 pm
You should start with a language specification, not an implementation
@crikxouba
December 17, 2025 at 2:07 pm
True, you don’t need to be good at math to do programming, yet most of the big tech companies insist on interview processes that are very math and algorithm heavy… so no you don’t need math, and yet, you do if you want a great job as a programmer.
@mightygingercles6481
December 17, 2025 at 5:40 pm
“The zeroth, the first, the…..third” Watching programmers brains short circuit between 0 based and 1 based counting never fails to entertain me. Fewer things in life are more certain the death, taxes, and index out of bounds errors.
@RenderingUser
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 pm
Rust W
@zachbrackett5778
December 17, 2025 at 7:19 pm
JS is such a GOATED language that 10 programmers can write the same function and every single implementation will look different, to one degree of readability or another.
@claris_2000
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 pm
she looks EXACTLY like what I imagined a code expert looking like
@tvsatellitee
December 17, 2025 at 8:51 pm
ive never seen someone with hands as shaky as mine LOL
@idk6465
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 am
We going to need her to come back for like multiple parts.
@Simorenarium
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 am
You can’t invent Unicorn Lang, that’s already a thing
@12XFactor
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 am
28:22 To add something to the “How to read code” question. I’m a UI designer with solid skills in Javascript, NodeJs, and Typescript on a prototyping level.
But when I’m in discussion with e.g. Android devs about design tokens, it’s relatively easy for me to read their UI Kotlin code, even if I never learned or wrote a line in Kotlin. Just because the mental idea of how the syntax works and stuff is structured is close enough to js. Same with C#.
But on the other hand, when I try to understand the most basic code in C++ or Powershell, I’m completely lost. 😄
@agdevoq
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 am
It’s 2025, hate simply exists
@Warlock_UK
December 18, 2025 at 9:58 am
Great talk, convinced me to try Rust. F TypeScript, though.
@kr3xy140
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 am
Her hand is shaking a lot
@valerie_zzzzz
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 am
I’m not a nerd 🙁
@HBStone
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 am
“New to coding. Is it always this difficult?” “No. It gets harder.”
@Justinjaro
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 pm
I love how the motherboard is just sitting there to fix the shot composition
@sexypekk
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 pm
Oddly I hate JavaScript and TypeScript made me even more miserable. I’d rather write straight js.
@orionbosma
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 pm
I wish every student can have an educator like her. Her energy can make anyone fall in love with a subject.
@guilhermeleoni25
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 pm
Wow, she’s the GOAT of teaching about code
@delta1172
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 pm
9:10 title is “haha nerd”
@kwxl
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 pm
It’s Stockholm by the way. 🇸🇪 😊