Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

2025/06/19

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Shownote

Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural language becomes the new p...

Highlights

Andrej Karpathy discusses the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on software development, introducing the concept of 'Software 3.0.' This new paradigm leverages neural networks and natural language processing to redefine how we interact with technology, shifting the landscape for developers and users alike.

13:47

LLMs are stochastic simulations of people with emergent human-like psychology.

19:15

Partial autonomy apps like Cursor combine traditional interfaces with LLM integration.

31:55

Building apps is easy; making them real-world products is hard.

Chapters

What Happens When Machines Understand Us?

00:00

Can AI and Humans Work Together Seamlessly?

16:33

How Will Software Development Evolve in the Age of LLMs?

29:26

Transcript

Andrej Karpathy: Please welcome former director of AI, Tesla, Andrej Karpathy. Hello, hello. A lot of people here. Hello. Okay, yeah, so I'm excited to be here today to talk to you about software in the era of AI. And I'm told that many of you are students...