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Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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Post by monsieurbanana »

politelemon wrote: post #120

The beginning was painful to watch as is the cheering in this comment section. The 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 simply aren't making sense. They imply a kind of a succession and replacement and demonstrate a lack of how programming works. It sounds as marketing oriented as "Web 3.0" that has been born inside an echo chamber. And yet halfway through, the need for determinism/validation is now being reinvented. The analogies make…

> "Because they all have slight pros and cons, and you may want to program some functionality in 1.0 or 2.0, or 3.0, or you're going to train in LLM, or you're going to just run from LLM"

He doesn't say they will fully replace each other (or had fully replaced each other, since his definition of 2.0 is quite old by now)

Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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Post by fergie »

There were some cool ideas- I particularly liked "psychology of AI"

Overall though I really feel like he is selling the idea that we are going to have to pay large corporations to be able to write code. Which is... terrifying.

Also, as a lazy developer who is always trying to make AI do my job for me, it still kind of sucks, and its not clear that it will make my life easier any time soon.

Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

#134

Post by falcor84 »

suddenlybananas wrote: post #105
karpathy wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun demo of an early idea was posted by Oriol just yesterday :) https://x.com/OriolVinyalsML/status/1935005985070084197

Having different documents come up every time you go into the documents directory seems hellishly terrible.

It's a brand of terribleness I've somewhat gotten used to, opening Google Drive every time, when it takes me to the "Suggested" tab. I can't recall a single time when it had the document I care about anywhere close to the top.

There's still nothing that beats the UX of Norton Commander.

Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

#135

Post by falcor84 »

malux85 wrote: post #126
politelemon wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

only in English, and also non-deterministic.

Yeah, wherever possible I try to have the llm answer me in Python rather than English (especially when explaining new concepts) English is soooooo ambiguous

For what it's worth, I've been using it to help me learn math, and I added to my rules an instruction that it should always give me an example in Python (preferably sympy) whenever possible.

Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

#136

Post by whiplash451 »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #132
politelemon wrote: post #120

The beginning was painful to watch as is the cheering in this comment section. The 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 simply aren't making sense. They imply a kind of a succession and replacement and demonstrate a lack of how programming works. It sounds as marketing oriented as "Web 3.0" that has been born inside an echo chamber. And yet halfway through, the need for determinism/validation is now being reinvented. The analogies make…

> "Because they all have slight pros and cons, and you may want to program some functionality in 1.0 or 2.0, or 3.0, or you're going to train in LLM, or you're going to just run from LLM" He doesn't say they will fully replace each other (or had fully replaced each other, since his definition of 2.0 is quite old by now)

I think Andrej is trying to elevate the conversation in an interesting way.

That in and on itself makes it worth it.

No one has a crystal clear view of what is happening, but at least he is bringing a novel and interesting perspective to the field.

Re: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

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Post by yusina »

ramraj07 wrote: post #137
amai wrote: post #111

The quite good blog post mentioned by Karpathy for working with LLMs when building software: - https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/ See also: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44242051

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Brutal counter take: If AI tooling makes you so much better, then you started very low. In contrast, if you are already insanely productive in creative ways others can hardly achieve then chances are, AI tools don't make much of a difference.
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