[Podcast] Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy

Lot’s of interesting ideas covered here.

On AGI “The problems are tractable, but they’re still difficult”

Three ways of using AI tool to help to code

  • Completely rejecting LLMs and writing from scratch
  • Using autocomplete while remaining the architect (his preferred approach)
  • “Vibe coding” where you prompt the model to implement things and let it do the work.

On AI coding tools “The models work well for boilerplate code and things that occur frequently on the internet in training data”