Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by viccis on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:48PM (#46788253)

Same. This kind of coding feels like it got rid of the building aspect of programming that always felt nice, and it replaced it entirely with business logic concerns, product requirements, code reviews, etc. All the stuff I can generally take or leave. It's like I'm always in a meeting.

>If I was intellectually excited about telling something to do this for me, I'd have gotten into management.

Exactly this. This is the simplest and tersest way of explaining it yet.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by taytus on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:56AM (#46793257)

Because you are not coding, you are building. I've been coding since I was 7 years old, now I'm building.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by mlrtime on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:19AM (#46793898)

I'd go one step higher, we're not builders, we're problem solvers.

Sometimes the problem needs building, sometimes not.

I'm an Engineer, I see a problem and want to solve it. I don't care if I have to write code, have a llm build something new, or maybe even destroy something. I want to solve the problem for the business and move to the next one, most of the time it is having a llm write code though.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by zigman1 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:29AM (#46794470)

Maybe I don't entirely get it, but what is stopping you to just continue coding?

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by nfgrep on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:30AM (#46795893)

Speaking for myself, speed. I’d be noticeably slower than my peers if I was crafting code by hand all day.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by viccis on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:01PM (#46802950)

That's what I'm doing on my codebases, while I still can. I only use Claude if I need to work on a different team's code that uses it heavily. Nothing quite gets a groan from me like opening up a repo and seeing CLAUDE.md

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