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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about coding agents

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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 readingWhat limits you with coding agents is your own skill at stringing them together, not the capability of the models.

    Their wordsI think to a large extent you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 5 months earlier

  3. Our readingThe industry is pretending today's coding agents are amazing when what they produce is slop, and some of that pretending is fundraising.

    Their wordsAnd I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and maybe they're trying to fund raise or something like that.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 11th of 30 in this recording

    Interesting