What Andrej Karpathy thinks about software quality

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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. 17 Oct 2025

   Our readingGetting from a demo to a product is a march of nines, and each additional nine costs the same amount of work as the one before it.

   Their wordsI think basically what takes the long amount of time and the way to think about it is that it's a march of nines and every single nine is a constant amount of work.

   ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 25th of 30 in this recording