Person
Steve Jobs
Cited in one post, DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic…, since September 2026
Brought up by David Heinemeier Hansson and Lex Fridman
Where they come up
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“I mean, if you're suddenly enabling something people wouldn't be doing before at all, it's okay to take five seconds longer. I think this is one of the areas that Steve Jobs was so good, that he realized, like, the first iPhone was terrible in all sorts of ways, right?”
[2:21:19] · DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 · machine-resolved
“Sometimes that lesson sticks, and I think if you talk to people who've worked for difficult leaders, Elon, Steve Jobs, maybe even Bill Gates, many of them afterwards would go like, "These were some very difficult years- ... but also some of the very best."”
[3:46:35] · DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 · machine-resolved