{"id":132458,"date":"2025-11-13T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:50:09","slug":"one-of-the-highest-paid-employees-of-meta-and-company-ai-chief-has-advice-for-teens-you-should-spend-all-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132458\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the highest-paid employees of Meta and company AI chief has advice for teens: &#8216;You should spend all your time\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/meta-ai-chief-alexander-wang.jpg\" alt=\"One of the highest-paid employees of Meta and company AI chief has advice for teens: 'You should spend all your time\u2026'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Meta\u2019s chief AI officer and one of the highest-paid employees at the company, Alexandr Wang, is urging teenagers to dedicate their time to mastering artificial intelligence (AI) tools, comparing the current moment to when Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg learned computer programming in their youth.\u201cIf you&#8217;re 13 right now, you should spend all your time vibe-coding,\u201d Wang said on the TBPN podcast during Meta Connect 2025. Wang argued that young people who invest thousands of hours in AI experimentation will gain a significant advantage over their peers in the future economy.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Secret AI Army: Top Talent Hired from OpenAI, Google &amp; More<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg moment. The people who grow up with these tools will have an immense advantage in the future economy,\u201d Wang added.He said that kids \u201cjust have to figure out how to use the [AI] tools maximally\u201d, because that will be a huge advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Wang compares AI to the PC revolution<\/p>\n<p>Wang, who became the youngest self-made billionaire at age 25 after founding Scale AI, drew parallels between today&#8217;s AI revolution and the emergence of personal computing.\u201cIt\u2019s almost like when personal computers first came about. Computing, in general, the people who spent the most time with it, grew up with it, had this immense advantage in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What is vibe-coding<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s advice centers on \u201cvibe-coding\u201d \u2013 a term that has also been used by Google CEO Sundar Pichai \u2013 is a hands-on learning approach where people actively build, test and experiment with AI coding assistants rather than relying on formal courses or structured learning.The term describes a rapid-experimentation method for understanding how AI systems operate and execute tasks. Vibe-coding has gained popularity among technology professionals as AI-powered development tools have become more sophisticated.\u201cYou should spend all of your time Vibe, coding, and just, you know. That&#8217;s how you should live your life,\u201d Wang said.The approach involves repeatedly prompting AI models, refining outputs and gradually learning how to effectively command these systems. \u201cIf 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\u2019s a huge advantage&#8230;.You just have to figure out how to use the tools maximally,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Secret AI Army: Top Talent Hired from OpenAI, Google &amp; More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s chief AI officer and one of the highest-paid employees at the company, Alexandr Wang, is urging teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,90998,78542,363,90997,364,90995,90994,898,90996,111,139,69,145,16662],"class_list":{"0":"post-132458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-hands-on-learning-approach","10":"tag-alexandr-wang","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence-learning","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg","15":"tag-future-economy-and-ai","16":"tag-meta","17":"tag-meta-ai-chief-advice","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-vibe-coding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}