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Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex do not work well enough to be a net help in writing a codebase like nanochat.
Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said, then moved away from
What Andrej Karpathy actually said
- Andrej Karpathy · held 3 months Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
No longer holdsGiven the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups
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