‘Never felt this much behind’: Andrej Karpathy says programming being refactored by AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy said in a reflective post on X that software development is undergoing a major shift and that traditional coding skills may no longer be enough to keep up.

Karpathy said he has “never felt this much behind as a programmer,” describing the change in how code is now written, optimised, and deployed. “The profession is being dramatically refactored,” Karpathy wrote.

He argued that developers today could be “10X more powerful” if they learned to effectively use…