#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has
educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build
software and have fun doing it. Thank you for listening Check out
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(00:00) - Introduction (10:27) - Love for programming (20:00) -
Hardest part of programming (22:16) - Types of programming (29:54)
- Life story (39:58) - Hardship (41:29) - High school (47:15) -
Porn addiction (57:01) - God (1:12:44) - Perseverance (1:22:40) -
Netflix (1:35:08) - Groovy (1:40:13) - Printf() debugging (1:46:35)
- Falcor (1:56:05) - Breaking production (1:58:49) - Pieter Levels
(2:03:19) - Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure (2:15:22) -
ThePrimeagen origin story (2:30:37) - Learning programming
languages (2:39:40) - Best programming languages in 2025 (2:44:35)
- Python (2:45:15) - HTML & CSS (2:46:05) - Bash (2:46:45) -
FFmpeg (2:53:28) - Performance (2:56:00) - Rust (3:00:48) - Epic
projects (3:14:12) - Asserts (3:23:26) - ADHD (3:31:34) -
Productivity (3:35:58) - Programming setup (4:11:28) - Coffee
(4:18:32) - Programming with AI (5:01:16) - Advice for young
programmers (5:12:48) - Reddit questions (5:20:20) - God PODCAST
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