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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:29AM (#46806929)
> using the LLMs still benefit from technical knowledge and product design skills, if the tools don't improve we keep that advantage…

I don't think we will, because many of us are already asking LLMs for help/advice on these, so we're already close to the point where LLMs will be able to use these capabilities directly, instead of just for helping us drive the process.

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Re:Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a b... by ben_w on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:39AM (#46807389)
Indeed, but the output of LLMs today for these kinds of task are akin to a junior product designer, a junior project manager, a junior software architect etc.

For those of us who are merely amateur at any given task, LLMs raising us to "junior" is absolutely an improvement. But just as it's possible to be a better coder than an LLM, if you're a good PM or QA or UI/UX designer, you're not obsolete yet.

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