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 ryanjshaw on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:16AM (#46793422)

> and can at any point look at the source and tell you why it did what it did

Even years later? Most people can’t unless there’s good comments and design. Which AI can replicate, so if we need to do that anyway, how is AI specially worse than a human looking back at code written poorly years ago?

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by bandrami on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:09AM (#46793839)

I mean, Emacs's oldest source files are like 40 years old at this point, and yes they are in fact legible? I'm not sure what you're asking -- you absolutely can (and if you use it long enough, will) read the source code of your text editor.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by draxil on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:11AM (#46794318)

Well especially the lisp parts!

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