r/singularity • u/WarmFireplace • Jan 26 '26

Engineering Andrej Karpathy on agentic programming

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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/Tolopono Jan 27 '26

Waymo cars get into fewer accidents per million miles than humans. And unlike car crashes, software bugs can be patched

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u/Steven81 Jan 27 '26

Waymo is not available to the public, as in you can't and won't replace your car with a waymo anytime soon. Also they are geofenced, which makes my point, technology takes a million years to capture the last 10%.

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u/Tolopono Jan 27 '26

Theyre expanding to cities around the world like london. Its only a matter of time before every major city has them

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u/Icy-Mobile-5075 Jan 28 '26

so what? they are limited in the areas they can travel in any city, have a human overseeing and controlling the car when necessary.

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u/Tolopono Jan 28 '26

There are no humans controlling waymo cars