OpenAI's co-founder feels like a "lagging" programmer

The Game Has Changed, and how does this affect you?

Andrej Karpathy, who helped co-found OpenAI and was essential in the development of Tesla's Autopilot, made a surprising statement to say the least: he said he has never felt so far behind as a programmer.

The reason? AI got so good that the game now is steering, no longer typing. In a deep 30-minute conversation, which honestly is worth an entire semester on the future of technology, he explains how software engineering has been turned upside down.

Welcome to Software 3.0!

Karpathy divides the evolution of computing into three clear phases:

Software 1.0: You wrote the rules explicitly (traditional lines of code).
Software 2.0: You programmed by arranging datasets and training neural networks.
Software 3.0: Here is the revolution. Now, programming has transformed into prompting. Your true control lever over the computer is no longer syntax, but the context you provide to Artificial Intelligence.

In this new scenario, the developer's role has evolved. Karpathy says that starting last December, he noticed AIs began generating practically flawless blocks of code, eliminating the need for manual corrections.