Comment by achierius
4 months ago
> Saying that Andrej Karpathy is "an AI researcher, but not a software engineer" isn't a very credible statement.
Broadly I agree with the two other replies: his 'day job' has not been coding in some time, so I would put him in the same bucket as e.g. a manager who got promoted out of writing code 5-10 years ago. I do want to understand where you're coming from here -- do you think that's a fair characterization?
His GitHub contributions graph (1,261 contributions in 2024) looks pretty healthy to me. https://github.com/karpathy
He spends a lot of time as an educator these days.
his commit messages leave something to be desired
> Merge pull request #740 from karpathy/gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2
> - fix tokenizer omg
> - attempt to fix PR
> - Merge branch 'fix_dataloader2' of https://github.com/gordicaleksa/llm.c into gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2
Come on really?
Do you write perfect commit messages every single time on every project you work on?