I don't know if it's fair to call him an ai addict or deduce that his ego is bruised. But I do wonder whether karpathy's agentic llm experiences are based on actual production code or pet projects. Based on a few videos I have seen of his, I am guessing it's the latter. Also, he is a research scientist (probably a great one), not a software developer. I agree with the op that karpathy should not be given much attention in this topic i.e llms for software development.
I don't agree with the parent commenters characterization of Karpathy, but these projects are just simple toy projects. They're educational material, not production level software.
I don't know if it's fair to call him an ai addict or deduce that his ego is bruised. But I do wonder whether karpathy's agentic llm experiences are based on actual production code or pet projects. Based on a few videos I have seen of his, I am guessing it's the latter. Also, he is a research scientist (probably a great one), not a software developer. I agree with the op that karpathy should not be given much attention in this topic i.e llms for software development.
"addict"
Great idea! Le's pathalogize another thing! I love quickly othering whole concepts and putting them in my brain's "bad" box so I can feel superior.
https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c
The proof is in the pudding. Let's see your code
I don't agree with the parent commenters characterization of Karpathy, but these projects are just simple toy projects. They're educational material, not production level software.
You just proved the parent’s point.
He said “…who has never written any production software…” yet you show toy projects instead.
Well done.
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