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Re:Karpathy on Programming by lo_zamoyski on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:39PM (#46425325)
> It’s watching the profession collectively decide that the solution to uncertainty is to pile abstraction on top of abstraction until no one can explain what’s actually happening anymore.

The ubiquitous adoption of LLMs for generating code is mostly a sign of bad abstraction or the absence of abstraction, not the excess of abstraction.

And choosing/making the right abstraction is kind of the name of the game, right? So it's not abstraction per se that's a problem.

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