ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it.
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - Love for programming
10:15 - Hardest part of programming
12:31 - Types of programming
20:08 - Life story
30:12 - Hardship
31:44 - High school
37:30 - Porn addiction
47:16 - God
1:02:59 - Perseverance
1:12:55 - Netflix
1:25:23 - Groovy
1:30:27 - Printf() debugging
1:36:49 - Falcor
1:46:19 - Breaking production
1:49:04 - Pieter Levels
1:53:34 - Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
2:05:36 - ThePrimeagen origin story
2:20:52 - Learning programming languages
2:29:55 - Best programming languages in 2025
2:34:50 - Python
2:35:30 - HTML & CSS
2:36:20 - Bash
2:37:00 - FFmpeg
2:43:42 - Performance
2:46:15 - Rust
2:51:03 - Epic projects
3:04:27 - Asserts
3:13:41 - ADHD
3:21:49 - Productivity
3:26:13 - Programming setup
4:01:43 - Coffee
4:08:47 - Programming with AI
4:51:31 - Advice for young programmers
5:03:03 - Reddit questions
5:10:35 - God
