Co-Founder & Chairman, Coursera
Search every verified Andrew Ng interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Andrew Ng has recently been active in public discussions and product launches related to AI education and software development. He released courses aimed at teaching non-technical users how to build applications by describing ideas in words, and offered guidance on effective prompting for modern AI tools. At the AI Dev 26 x San Francisco conference in May 2026, he announced two new tools: Context Hub, designed to provide AI agents with up-to-date documentation to prevent the use of outdated APIs, and Code Dream, an interactive learning environment featuring AI-driven conversations and a browser-based terminal. He also participated in a fireside chat at Interrupt 26, where he discussed the rapid evolution of coding agents and the shifting bottlenecks in software development as AI accelerates coding speed. In interviews and talks, Ng offered perspectives on current trends in AI, stating that while the hype around the technology exceeded his expectations, he did not believe that a job apocalypse from AI is imminent. He argued that engineering roles would remain valuable and that as coding becomes easier, more people should learn to do it, not fewer. He also discussed the importance of rethinking entire workflows rather than making incremental efficiency gains, and highlighted the growing need for organizations to organize unstructured data for use by AI agents.
“I think the problem with some of these discussions about AGI, you know, alignment, the paperclip problem, is that is a huge distraction from the much harder problems that we actually need to address today. Some of the hard problems in AI today. I think bias is a huge issue. I worry about wealth inequality. The AI and i...”
“I think the thing that affects your experience more is less are you in this company versus that company or academia versus industry. I think the thing that affects you experience most is who are the people you're interacting with in a daily basis. So even if you look at some of the large companies the experience of ind...”
“The hype has exceeded my expectations. And then also the doomsaying narratives also got more traction unfortunately I would have guessed including the job apocalypse which I don't think is going to be a thing.”
“If we can all protect open source open weights um it will make you know it will make the world much richer and also help all of us preserve optionality.”
“I personally almost never sign longer than a one-year contract. um uh regardless of the discounts off it uh because I value that optionality to work with whatever vendor would be the best in a year's time that I don't know about.”
“Over the last 10 20 years we put so much effort into organizing our structured data you know the tables relational data the spreadsheets um and that's great that's clearly important but now that AI can process unstructured data so text images PDF files audio maybe video um organizing that to get it to AI or agents in r...”
“The easiest way to create software in the AI era is no longer to type out code yourself. Instead, you should tell AI to do it for you. Telling AI what to do is called prompting.”
“Because of AI, is now possible to go from an idea to a working app, sometimes in minutes. One of the earliest video games in computer history was a game called Pong, which was sort of a twoperson pingpong game, and that had taken the team weeks to build. But now, thanks to AI, you can build something like this in minut...”
“I find that if someone only builds, they often end up unaware of core concepts and can end up spending months reinventing the wheel or worse, doing things in very strange ways. But conversely, if someone only takes causes, then they end up with theoretical knowledge without knowing how to apply it. So both building and...”
“I'm not really seeing that [the job apocalypse] and in fact with this profile of engineer the future AI engineer has a very bright future. when my teams are hiring for AI engineers, these are these are what we look for, right? First have to be able to use coding agents uh effectively, be it cloud code, Gemini CLI, open...”
“AI coding has made that 10 or 100 times faster and so this means that deciding what to build or the product management work becomes the new bottleneck rather than the actual building. So what I start to see like starting a year year and a half ago was this very strange trend where we used to have product manager to eng...”
“And one thing that used to be painful but it's even more painful now is the legal compliance bottleneck. Right? If you spend three months writing code and legal takes a month to sign off, it's okay. But when you take a day writing code, they got to wait a month for legal. It's like boy. Um, and even marketing bottlenec...”
“Context hub is a tool that some colleagues uh, Rohit Prasad, senior hotel and I built um, in order to give your AI agent most up-to-date documentation. And it turns out that um, if you run context hub with uh, cloud code, it will generate code with the newer responses API. Um, maybe just to show you really briefly, I d...”
“I am happy to announce that codeream is available as of today in preview. So please check it out. Um and the first experience will show you how to use context up and give us feedback. We're eager to keep on working to make this better.”
“Using AI well is one of the most impactful skills you can develop. And people that are not yet at a cutting edge of AI usage often run into AI generating frustrating outputs. I want to make sure you're an expert prompter and can take advantage of today's AI tools which are much more powerful than they were even a year...”
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Andrew Ng sat down with Harrison Chase for a wide-ranging fireside chat at Interrupt, the agent conference by LangChain. Watch the full session and get insights on: How fast coding agents have evolved and how the way small teams ship is being reshaped The "product management bottleneck" and why accelerating software development just moves the constraint somewhere else How enterprises are getting incremental AI wins but missing the bigger transformation The data architecture rework most companies haven't started yet ...and so much more The Future of AI Agents with Andrew NG | Interrupt 26 0…
Earn your certificate here: https://bit.ly/4ejb47H If you’ve never written code before, this course is for you. In less than 30 minutes, you’ll learn to describe an idea in words and let AI transform it into an app for you. You’ll build a working web application in minutes: A funny interactive birthday message generator that runs in your browser and can be shared with friends. Then you’ll customize it by telling AI how you want it changed, tweaking it until it works exactly how you want. You’ll learn about best practices for building with AI, such as how to improve your app step-by-step and…
At AI Dev 26 x San Francisco, Andrew Ng discussed the rapid evolution of software engineering driven by AI coding agents and introduced new tools to support this shift: - The Shift in Software Development - New Bottlenecks and Generalist Skills - Job Market Perspective Andrew also announced: Context Hub: A tool designed to provide AI agents with up-to-date documentation to prevent hallucinations and the use of deprecated APIs. Code Dream: An interactive learning environment featuring AI-driven video conversations and a browser-based terminal for practicing with modern coding agents.
Whatever your current skill level, this course will help you become an AI power user. Learn to: Find information: Get accurate, well-sourced answers using AI web search and deep research modes. Brainstorm & Write: Use AI as a thought partner to get honest feedback and write natural-sounding text. Create & Build: Generate images and build simple websites and apps with no coding required. Taught by AI pioneer Andrew Ng, you’ll learn how to effectively use modern AI for the main things people use it for: finding information, brainstorming and writing, and working with multimedia and code. I…
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Andrew Ng (Founder, DeepLearning.AI) and Greg Hart (CEO, Coursera) join moderator Michael Moe (Founder and CEO, GSV) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 in 278 Million Reasons to Pay Attention... Andrew Ng and Greg Hart to explore the масштаб and impact of global online learning and AI-driven education. About GSV Summit The ASU+GSV Summit is the premier global convening for the entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, educators, workforce leaders, and policymakers transforming the $8 trillion education and skills sector and convening over 7,000. The ASU+GSV Summit, launched in 2010 and now in its 1…
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Will we get AGI in 2026? Will AI agents replace programmers? Is the open-source AI era ending — and is China already ahead? In this episode, Andrew Ng breaks down why “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) has become a marketing term, why the world is still decades away from real AGI, and what the real story is: AI agents, agent workflows, and practical AI adoption that changes business long before human-level intelligence arrives. We go deep on the gap between AI benchmarks and real-world usefulness, the risk of an AI hype bubble leading to another AI winter, and why open-source / open-weig…
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