Comment by kiriakosv

I may be extremely ignorant here but I think Karpathy is primary and foremost a great pitcher - salesman, not only for AI in general but on his personal branding as well.

He is also great at explaining AI related concepts to the masses.

However his takes on software engineering show someone that hasn’t spend a significant amount of time doing production grade software engineering, and that is perfectly fine and completely normal given his background.

But that also means that we should not take his software engineering opinions as gospel.