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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about code generation

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  1. Our readingAs intelligence and code become increasingly abundant, people can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts that would never have made sense to create before.

    Their wordsas intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

  2. 11 months earlier

  3. Our readingCoding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before.

    Their wordsI think um yeah, they're not very good at code that hasn't never been written before maybe is like one way to put it, which is like what we're trying to achieve when we're building these models.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 10th of 30 in this recording