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

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1481 points sandslash | 7 comments | 19 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.129s | source | bottom
1. wiremine ◴[19 Jun 25 19:20 UTC] No.44321664[source]▶
I spent a lot of time thinking about this recently. Ultimately, English is not a clean, deterministic abstraction layer. This isn't to say that LLMs aren't useful, and can create some great efficiencies.
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2. npollock ◴[19 Jun 25 19:42 UTC] No.44321871[source]▶
no, but a subset of English could be
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3. ◴[19 Jun 25 19:50 UTC] No.44321939[source]▶
4. freehorse ◴[19 Jun 25 20:07 UTC] No.44322089[source]▶
Thought we already had that?
5. 4gotunameagain ◴[19 Jun 25 20:40 UTC] No.44322343[source]▶
Let me introduce to you.. python ;)
6. axxto ◴[19 Jun 25 22:29 UTC] No.44323124[source]▶
You just invented programming languages, halfway
7. smnplk ◴[20 Jun 25 15:17 UTC] No.44328547[source]▶
Yeah, let's bring back COBOL