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

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1479 points sandslash | 1 comments | 19 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.387s | source
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fergie ◴[19 Jun 25 08:22 UTC] No.44316568[source]▶
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.

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guappa ◴[19 Jun 25 08:44 UTC] No.44316675[source]▶
I think it used to be like that before the GNU people made gcc, completely destroying the market of compilers.

> 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.

Every time I have to write a simple self contained couple of functions I try… and it gets it completely wrong.

It's easier to just write it myself rather than to iterate 50 times and hope it will work, considering iterations are also very slow.

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1. ykonstant ◴[19 Jun 25 10:04 UTC] No.44317093[source]▶
At least proprietary compilers were software you owned and could be airgapped from any network. You didn't create software by tediously negotiating with compilers running on remote machines controlled by a tech corp that can undercut you on whatever you are trying to build (but of course they will not, it says so in the Agreement, and other tales of the fantastic).