Here's how to create the next Bill Gates

Alexandr Wang, the young genius billionaire working at Meta. Photo: Teropongmedia .

Alexandr Wang, the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 24, is now running one of Silicon Valley's most ambitious AI plans at 28. In his first 60 days at Meta, he built a 100-person lab that is home to more AI talent than any other lab.

From a tech industry perspective, Wang also has advice for kids, especially Generation Alphas entering middle school: Forget about video games, sports, or traditional after-school hobbies.
“If you are 13 years old, spend all your time on vibe coding,” he replied in an interview with TBPN.

Vibe coding is not about serious coding, but about having fun, learning while experimenting, programming on inspiration. Instead of writing complex syntax, users just need to describe the goal, and the AI will create prototypes that work as desired.

The concept is spreading among Silicon Valley’s top executives. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, says he can test ideas in 20 minutes instead of weeks of engineering cycles. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, says AI now generates more than 30% of the company’s new code, calling it the biggest leap forward in software development in 25 years.

According to Wang, every engineer, including himself, is writing code that will likely be obsolete in a few years. “Literally, all the code I’ve ever written in my life will be replaced by something AI generates,” he said. The most important thing now is to spend time experimenting and controlling AI tools, rather than learning syntax or a specific programming language.

“If you happen to spend 10,000 hours playing with these tools and figure out how to use them better than anyone else, you have a huge advantage,” Wang said. So teenagers with more time and freedom to explore technology have a lot of potential.

He compares the present moment to the early days of the personal computer revolution. Geniuses like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had a huge advantage simply because they grew up with the most primitive machines.

During the interview, he did not hide Meta's ambition when he affirmed that the company's infrastructure, scale and product distribution capabilities are absolute. Superintelligence's team, just over 100 people, is said by Wang to be 10 times smaller than other labs, but gathers top coders.

The lab is divided into three pillars – research, products and infrastructure – aimed at developing models that Wang believes will eventually lead to super-intelligence. The company is also focused on building large data centers to ensure the models are distributed to billions of users.

For Wang, vibe coding is not just a productivity hack, but a culture of the future. It’s the hours spent on pushing AI to its limits that matter, not the code itself. “The role of an engineer is very different now,” he says.

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