Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry • Hacker News Board

No, they are totally unrelated. Web 3.0 is blockchain-backed web applications (rather than proprietary server-backed web applications, which is Web 2.0) and Software 3.0 is LLM-powered agents.

Re: Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry

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Post by msgodel » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

levocardia wrote: post #4

pudiklubi wrote: post #2

For context - I was in the audience when Karpathy gave this amazing talk on software 3.0. YC has said the official video will take a few weeks to release, by which Karpathy himself said the talk will be deprecated. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1935077692258558443

To complete the loop, we need an AI avatar of Karpathy doing text-to-voice from the transcript. Who says AI can't boost productivity!

I listened to it with an old fashion CMU speech synth.

Re: Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry

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Post by umeshunni » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

no_wizard wrote: post #9

A large contention of this essay (which I’m assuming the talk is based on or is transcribed from depending on order) I do think that open source models will eventually catch up to closed source ones, or at least be “good enough” and I also think you can already see how LLMs are augmenting knowledge work. I don’t think it’s the 4th wave of pioneering a new dawn of civilization but it’s clear LLMs will remain useful wh…

> I do think that open source models will eventually catch up to closed source ones

It felt like that was the direction for a while, but in the last year or so, the gap seems to have widened. I'm curious whether this is my perception or validated by some metric.

Re: Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry

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Post by swyx » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #3

See also https://www.latent.space/p/s3

thanks - i've now also updated the powerpoint with matched transcript to slides - so we are now fully confident in the slide order and you can basically watch the talk with slides

Re: Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry

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Post by swyx » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

pudiklubi wrote: post #2

For context - I was in the audience when Karpathy gave this amazing talk on software 3.0. YC has said the official video will take a few weeks to release, by which Karpathy himself said the talk will be deprecated. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1935077692258558443

i synced the slides with the talk transcript here : https://latent.space/s3