Re:Karpathy on Programming
by llmslave2 on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:17PM
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It might be genuinely useful in 5 years, my issue is how it's being marketed now. We're 6 months into "AI will be writing 90% of code in three months" among other ridiculous statements.
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Re:Karpathy on Programming
by jennyholzer3 on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:33PM
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I don't mean to be inflammatory but I am not at all convinced that LLMs will be useful for software development in 5 years!
I think LLMs are very well marketed but I don't think they're very good at writing code and I don't think they've gotten better at it!
I sort of agree. If anything I feel like they've gotten a bit worse, but the advances in the tooling around them (eg claude code) has masked that slightly.
I think they are useful as an augmentation, but largely valueless for directly outputting code. Who knows if that will change. It's still made me more productive as a dev despite not oneshotting entire files. It's just not industry-changing, at least yet.
Agreed. It is very similar to gambling in how it tricks the human mind. I am sure some of this AI technology will prove yo be useful but the breakthrough has been just around the corner since soon after ChatGPT was released.