Gen Z billionaire Alexandr Wang tells 13-year-olds they should be more like Bill Gates, who snuck out of the house to code at night

Alexandr Wang (Credit: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Scale AI billionaire Alexandr Wang says “vibe-coding” is today’s Bill Gates moment—time spent hands-on with AI tools now could compound into a career-defining advantage later. His advice: log thousands of hours experimenting with AI coding assistants and workflows.

“If you are 13 years old, you should spend all of your time vibe-coding. That’s how you should live your life,” the 28-year-old Meta chief AI officer said on the TBPN podcast, adding that 10,000 hours of deep practice with the tools can become a “huge advantage.”