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

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1480 points sandslash | 2 comments | 19 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | 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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teekert ◴[19 Jun 25 09:34 UTC] No.44316942[source]▶
He says that now we are in the mainframe phase. We will hit the personal computing phase hopefully soon. He says llama (and DeepSeek?) are like Linux in a way, OpenAI and Claude are like Windows and MacOS.

So, No, he’s actually saying it may be everywhere for cheap soon.

I find the talk to be refreshingly intellectually honest and unbiased. Like the opposite of a cringey LinkedIn post on AI.

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1. mirkodrummer ◴[19 Jun 25 12:51 UTC] No.44318208[source]▶
Being Linux is not a good thing imo, it took decades for tech like proton to run Windows games reliably, if not better as now, than Windows does. Software is still mostly develop for Windows and macOS. Not to mention the Linux Desktop that never took off, I mean one could mention Android but there is a large corporation behind it. Sure Linux is successfull in many ways, it's embedded everywhere but nowhere near being the OS of the everyday people, "traditional linux desktop" never took off
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2. teekert ◴[20 Jun 25 06:06 UTC] No.44325135[source]▶
You mention consumer stuff, but Linux runs the world. In numbers it's more like insects vs human than any "fair balance". You probably have more Linux machines serving you than Windows or MacOS/iOS machine at any given time.