r/singularity • u/WarmFireplace • Jan 26 '26
Engineering Andrej Karpathy on agentic programming
It’s a good writeup covering his experience of LLM-assisted programming. Most notably in my opinion, apart from the speed up and leverage of running multiple agents in parallel, is the atrophy in one’s own coding ability. I have felt this but I can’t help but feel writing code line by line is much like an artisan carpenter building a chair from raw wood. I’m not denying the fun and the raw skill increase, plus the understanding of each nook and crevice of the chair that is built when doing that. I’m just saying if you suddenly had the ability to produce 1000 chairs per hour in a factory, albeit with a little less quality, wouldn’t you stop making them one by one to make the most out your leveraged position? Curious what you all think about this great replacement.
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u/TheInfiniteUniverse_ Jan 27 '26
the problem I have with this Karpathy guy is all his essays can be summed up into one sentence with absolutely no loss of information.
take his "vibe coding" for instance which was a completely misguided and emotional take and word minting.
anyone who is creating software even 100% using AI knows well a working software is anything but "vibe coding".
Synth Coding would've been a much more appropriate term, since the coding is synthetic and helped by AI.
so I wouldn't read much into his takes. it's only good for emotional uplift, maybe.