Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
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Notes from Karpathy’s talk: Software 3.0, LLMs as fallible people spirits, the autonomy slider, and the decade of agents.
Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, co-founding member of OpenAI, and the man who coined “vibe coding”, gave a 40min talk on “Software in the Era of AI” [1]:
- Software 3.0: Programming in English.
- LLM is like “fallible people spirits”: stochastic simulation of people, or I call “quantum state of personas” (prompting causing wave function collapse).
- “Autonomy slider” to meet LLMs half-way: partial autonomy apps — AI generates suggestions and humans verify them.
- Build systems for agents: clean and well-documented APIs for agents; robots.txt → llms.txt.
- Cloud-first and on-device.
- Vibe coding: the human role shifts from coder to context-wrangler or orchestrator.
- Comparing current LLM evolution to 60s (mainframe era).
- 2025–2035 will mark the “decade of agents”.
References
[1] Karpathy, Andrej. “Software Is Changing (Again).” YouTube. https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ
Originally posted on LinkedIn.