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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: 0.204s | source
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mentalgear ◴[19 Jun 25 09:33 UTC] No.44316934[source]▶
Meanwhile, I asked this morning Claude 4 to write a simple EXIF normalizer. After two rounds of prompting it to double-check its code, I still had to point out that it makes no sense to load the entire image for re-orientating if the EXIF orientation is fine in the first place.

Vibe vs reality, and anyone actually working in the space daily can attest how brittle these systems are.

Maybe this changes in SWE with more automated tests in verifiable simulators, but the real world is far to complex to simulate in its vastness.

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1. Seanambers ◴[19 Jun 25 11:30 UTC] No.44317622[source]▶
Seems to me that this is just another level of throwing compute at the problem.

Same way programs was way more efficient before and now they are "bloated" with packages, abstractions, slow implementations of algos and scaffolding.

The concept of what is good software development might be changing as well.

LLMs might not write the best code, but they sure can write a lot of it.