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> Saying that Andrej Karpathy is "an AI researcher, but not a software engineer" isn't a very credible statement. Broadly I agree with the two other replies: h
by achierius 1y ago
> Saying that Andrej Karpathy is "an AI researcher, but not a software engineer" isn't a very credible statement.
Broadly I agree with the two other replies: his 'day job' has not been coding in some time, so I would put him in the same bucket as e.g. a manager who got promoted out of writing code 5-10 years ago. I do want to understand where you're coming from here -- do you think that's a fair characterization?
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- simonw 1y agoHis GitHub contributions graph (1,261 contributions in 2024) looks pretty healthy to me. https://github.com/karpathy https://github.com/karpathy He spends a lot of time as an educator these days.
- dijksterhuis 1y agohis commit messages leave something to be desired > Merge pull request #740 from karpathy/gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2 > - fix tokenizer omg > - attempt to fix PR > - Merge branch 'fix_dataloader2' of https://github.com/gordicaleksa/llm.c https://github.com/gordicaleksa/llm.c into gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2
- pythonaut_16 1y agoCome on really? Do you write perfect commit messages every single time on every project you work on?