AI DevOps Podcast Mads Torgersen: Talking AI - Episode 395
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Mar 30, 2026 Mads Torgersen, Principal Architect at Microsoft and long-time C# lead designer (formerly a professor and contributor to a language starting with J). He talks about how AI is changing programming languages and tooling. He covers trust and verification of AI-generated code. He explains C# 15’s headline feature: union types, and how migration and feedback will shape the preview.
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What Keeps A Language Designer Motivated
- Mads stays motivated by curiosity about languages, great collaborators, and impact on millions of users.
- He mixes academic interest with working alongside talented teams at Microsoft to keep engagement high.
Balance AI Creativity With Deterministic Compilers
- AI coding is powerful but still non-deterministic and sometimes surprisingly wrong.
- Mads emphasizes combining deterministic compiler strengths with AI to get productivity plus trust and correctness.
Give AIs An IDE Interface To Improve Results
- Treat AI tooling as the next IDE step function that boosts developer productivity and confidence.
- Mads suggests giving AIs access to language servers (LSP) so they can ask deterministic questions like humans in an IDE.