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karpathy.medium.com

Most AI breakthroughs are thought of as isolated advances, but Karpathy argues they signal a broader shift: code is being replaced by neural networks trained on data.

This reframe changed how I think about software. Writing code is increasingly the wrong level of abstraction — you train the behavior instead.

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priya·274 rep·2/2/2026

The section on the 'new paradigm' advantages is what I keep coming back to — in particular the bit about optimizing over a program space that's fundamentally different from hand-written code.