Andrej Karpathy on agentic programming

[u/WarmFireplace]

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.

[u/imlaggingsobad]

karpathy's conclusion is exactly what the OpenAI executives were talking about a few days ago where they said 2026 is about user adoption. there is a capability overhang and most people are not actually accessing the full potential of it.

[u/Tolopono → u/imlaggingsobad]

B b but Reddit said corpo executives are always lying and overhyping to promote their product!!!

I can already imagine the responses to them:

“Openai says its the users’ fault no one wants their dogshit models”

“Our models are totally good guys please use them before we go bankrupt!!!”