Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas agrees that Computer Science is gradually returning to the domain of…
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, added his weight to a growing conversation about what AI is doing to software engineering. On March 13, he quote-tweeted a post by physics and AI/ML student @TheVixhal with two words: “Well said.” The original post, which racked up 15,000-plus likes and nearly a million views, argued that LLMs are quietly automating the grunt work of coding—and in doing so, pulling computer science back toward its mathematical and physics-heavy roots.
The idea isn’t fringe. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said the industry is 6 to 12 months from AI handling most of what software engineers currently do end-to-end.
