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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: 0.371s | source
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imiric ◴[19 Jun 25 10:28 UTC] No.44317210[source]▶
It's fascinating to see his gears grinding at 22:55 when acknowledging that a human still has to review the thousand lines of LLM-generated code for bugs and security issues if they're "actually trying to get work done". Yet these are the tools that are supposed to make us hyperproductive? This is "Software 3.0"? Give me a break.
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rwmj ◴[19 Jun 25 11:12 UTC] No.44317516[source]▶
Plus coding is the fun bit, reviewing code is the hard and not fun bit, arguing with an overconfident machine sound like it'll be worse even than that. Thankfully I'm going to retire soon.
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1. imiric ◴[19 Jun 25 13:44 UTC] No.44318634[source]▶
Agreed. Hell, even reviewing code can be fun and engaging, especially if done in person. But it helps when the other party can actually think, instead of automatically responding with "You're right!", followed by changes that may or may not make things worse.

It's as if software developers secretly hated their jobs and found most tasks a chore, so they hired someone else to poorly do the mechanical tasks for them, while ignoring the tasks that actually matter. That's not software engineering, programming, nor coding. It's some process of producing shitty software for which we need new terminology to describe.

I envy you for retiring. Good luck!