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🚨 do you understand what Karpathy just said..
the guy who co-founded OpenAI.. led AI at Tesla.. one of the best engineers alive..
built an app with AI.. and said the code was the easy part..
the hard part was Stripe.. auth.. DNS.. databases.. deploying it.. connecting 15 different services that all have different dashboards and different docs and different billing pages..
AI can write your entire app in 20 minutes.. but it still can't click "confirm email" on Vercel..
so the thing that's "replacing developers" can't do the thing developers actually spend 80% of their time doing..
vibe coding didn't kill software engineering.. it just proved that coding was never the job.. the job was dealing with the mess around the code.. and that mess is still 100% human.
When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc...
I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. This is the actually hard part, not the code itself. Or rather, the better way to think about it is that the entire DevOps lifecycle has to become code, in addition to the necessary sensors/actuators of the CLIs/APIs with agent-native ergonomics. And there should be no need to visit web pages, click buttons, or anything like that for the human.
It's easy to state, it's now just barely technically possible and expected to work maybe, but it definitely requires from-scratch re-design, work and thought. Very exciting direction!
Spent the day exploring @karpathy 's autoresearch technique—AI agents that autonomously run 100+ ML experiments while you sleep!
Built a beginner's guide to understand it better with a SPY trading model example you can try on any laptop. Dive in: github.com/marcote/autoresea… #AI #MachineLearning #Trading #agent #llm
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Not knowing how to code giving you an advantage is absolute nonsense.
The more you understand, the better your prompts, the better the feedback you give, the better product you ship.
What will change is that the intricacies of syntax, compilers, module systems, the finer details of type systems, won’t matter as much to everyone.
But you should absolutely understand how the pieces fit together. From syscall to pixels. Learn how data flows, because you’ll be able to secure your systems. Learn about performance, because you’ll be able to push your agent further. Learn about APIs, because they determine how to integrate systems. Learn about how systems fail, because you’ll be able to make reliable programs.
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Maybe AI was just some elaborate ploy to get engineers to finally write tests and documentation
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Junior devs like DHH, Linus Torvalds and Theo all think AI is useful for coding.
Senior devs like Notch think it’s useless.
Clearly just skill issues.
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This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.
