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

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1481 points sandslash | 3 comments | 19 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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greybox ◴[19 Jun 25 14:03 UTC] No.44318790[source]▶
He's talking about "LLM Utility companies going down and the world becoming dumber" as a sign of humanity's progress.

This if anything should be a huge red flag

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iLoveOncall ◴[19 Jun 25 14:26 UTC] No.44318988[source]▶
He lives in a GenAI bubble where everyone is self-congratulating about the usage of LLMs.

The reality is that there's not a single critical component anywhere that is built on LLMs. There's absolutely no reliance on models, and ChatGPT being down has absolutely no impact on anything beside teenagers not being able to cheat on their homeworks and LLM wrappers not being able to wrap.

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1. ukprogrammer ◴[19 Jun 25 14:45 UTC] No.44319167[source]▶
Even an LLM could tell you that that's an unknowable thing, perhaps you should rely on them more.
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2. iLoveOncall ◴[19 Jun 25 15:22 UTC] No.44319535[source]▶
Has a critical service that you used meaningfully changed to seemingly integrate non-deterministic "intelligence" in the past 3 years in one of its critical paths? I'd bet good money that the answer to literally everyone is no.

My company uses GenAI a lot in a lot of projects. Would it have some impact if all models suddenly stopped working? Sure. But the oncalls wouldn't even get paged.

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3. jeffnappi ◴[19 Jun 25 17:30 UTC] No.44320751[source]▶
Tesla FSD, Waymo are good examples.