> This thread perfectly captures what Karpathy was getting at. We're witnessing a fundamental shift where the interface to computing is changing from formal syntax to natural language.
Yes, telling a subordinate with natural language what you need is called being a product manager. Problem is, the subordinate has encyclopedic knowledge but it's also extremely dumb in many aspects.
I guess this is good for people that got into CS and hate the craft so prefer doing management, but in many cases you still need in your team someone with a IQ higher than room temperature to deliver a product. The only "fundamental" shift here is killing the entry-level coder at the big corp tasked at doing menial and boilerplate tasks, when instead you can hire a mechanical replacement from an AI company for a few hundred dollars a month.
sponnath
I think the only places where the entry-level coder is being killed are corps that never cared about the junior to senior pipeline. Some of them love off-shoring too so I'm not sure much has changed.
kevinventullo
“Wait… junior engineers don’t have short-term positive ROI?”
“Never did.”
bobxmax
> Problem is, the subordinate has encyclopedic knowledge but it's also extremely dumb in many aspects.
Yes, telling a subordinate with natural language what you need is called being a product manager. Problem is, the subordinate has encyclopedic knowledge but it's also extremely dumb in many aspects.
I guess this is good for people that got into CS and hate the craft so prefer doing management, but in many cases you still need in your team someone with a IQ higher than room temperature to deliver a product. The only "fundamental" shift here is killing the entry-level coder at the big corp tasked at doing menial and boilerplate tasks, when instead you can hire a mechanical replacement from an AI company for a few hundred dollars a month.