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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: 0.443s | source
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johnwheeler ◴[20 Jun 25 00:32 UTC] No.44323784[source]▶
https://github.com/screencam/typescript-mcp-server

I've been working on this project. I built this in about two days, using it to build itself at the tail end of the effort. It's not perfect, but I see the promise in it. It stops the thrashing the LLMs can do when they're looking for types or trying to resolve anything like that.

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1. diggan ◴[20 Jun 25 11:17 UTC] No.44326660[source]▶
> Traditional: Read 5000 lines → Find method → Replace → Write 5000 lines

What of today's agents work like this? None of the ones I've tried would do something like that, but instead would grep/search the file, then do a smaller edit (different tools do those in different ways).

Overall, it does feel like a strawman argument against "Traditional" when almost none of the tooling actually works like that.

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2. johnwheeler ◴[20 Jun 25 23:27 UTC] No.44333072[source]▶
Apologies - I had the LLM generate the readme and it looks like it got a bit overzealous. I'll get some actual benchmarks and cost usage analysis going. I've tamed the README somewhat. Please check it out!