Programming Throwdown, Episode 155, The Future of Search with Sahil Jane.

Take it away, Patrick.

Excited to be here for another episode, 155.

I don't know.

I guess we remark on the number every time, but that habit.

That habit.

We should hire someone to help write intros for us.

Oh, no, that's what we're going to get Chappet-T to do.

I should hire a ghostwriter. I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about getting researchers. And then the researchers would basically feed them all their topics. And I was like, we've been doing this a very long time, Jason, but we've never been that professional. No, never happened. I don't even know if we discussed it. Is it true that musicians don't write their own songs, or is that just like a dis or something?

It depends on the musician.

Okay, that's a very good, very non-committal answer.

Is it true that Stack Overflow writes all your code, Jason?

Yes.

All right.

Well, we're to welcome to the show, Sahel.

He is an engineer at you.com.

Glad to have you here.

Yeah, glad to be here.

So the way we always kind of start this off with guests, you know, it's always an interesting story to learn a little bit about the different ways people got into tech, got into programming.

So do you have like a first memory, like a first computer or first time you did a programming

problem or it was like the earliest thing that sort of got you excited about technology?

Yeah, that's a good question.

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