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

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1480 points sandslash | 1 comments | 19 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.257s | source
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abdullin ◴[19 Jun 25 07:03 UTC] No.44316210[source]▶
Tight feedback loops are the key in working productively with software. I see that in codebases up to 700k lines of code (legacy 30yo 4GL ERP systems).

The best part is that AI-driven systems are fine with running even more tight loops than what a sane human would tolerate.

Eg. running full linting, testing and E2E/simulation suite after any minor change. Or generating 4 versions of PR for the same task so that the human could just pick the best one.

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OvbiousError ◴[19 Jun 25 09:35 UTC] No.44316946[source]▶
I don't think the human is the problem here, but the time it takes to run the full testing suite.
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1. Byamarro ◴[19 Jun 25 09:51 UTC] No.44317032[source]▶
I work in web dev, so people sometimes hook code formatting as a git commit hook or sometimes even upon file save. The tests are problematic tho. If you work at huge project it's a no go idea at all. If you work at medium then the tests are long enough to block you, but short enough for you not to be able to focus on anything else in the meantime.