Eric Schmidt says AI beat him at the thing he did best0

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• October 2, 2026

The former Google CEO said AI has beaten him at the thing he was once best at. Eric Schmidt, now 71, told Blackstone’s “Inside Blackstone” podcast that he was among the top programmers of his generation, but today’s AI coding tools are writing the code he couldn’t. “I was a very, very good programmer when