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

This DevOps friction is exactly why I'm building an open-source "Firebase for LLMs." The moment you want to add AI to an app, you're forced to build a backend just to securely proxy API calls—you can't expose LLM API keys client-side. So developers who could previously build entire apps backend-free suddenly need servers, key management, rate limiting, logging, deployment... all just to make a single OpenAI call. Anyone else hit this wall? The gap between "AI-first" and "backend-free" development feels very solvable.

Yeah, hit this exact wall building a small AI tool. Ended up spinning up a whole backend just to keep the keys safe. Feels like there should be a simpler way, but haven’t seen anything that’s truly plug-and-play yet. Curious to see what you’re working on.

It’s very obvious this account was just created to promote your product…

I don't even have a product although I'd love people to work on something open source together. Also, I'm not nearly cool enough to earn a green username.