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Why should we care that he’s famous?

• nfg 7mo ago
  Fame doesn’t enter it - the point is Karpathy has about as strong a claim as anyone to having “actually used LLMs for non trivial tasks”.
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  • nurettin 7mo ago
    That is not the case at all, considering that he himself started using and tweeting about llms for coding fairly recently. He's probably less experienced in that area than most people who started using claude cli last year. He is a researcher who understands neural networks and their architectures exceptionally well. That is all.
    • DoctorOetker 7mo ago
      > He is a researcher who understands neural networks and their architectures exceptionally well. That is all. And that is precisely why he is more qualified on the subject than your average vibe coder!
    • ukd1 7mo ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding lol
• ericd 7mo ago
  Shades of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
  • CamperBob2 7mo ago
    That whole thread is just amazing, if you back up a couple of levels from ground zero. Great perspectives from a lot of thoughtful posters. E.g., you can see a post from a user named dhouston, who mentioned that he was thinking about starting an online file sync/backup service of some sort.
    • ericd 7mo ago
      Haha awesome. I guess they were going through YC right then, I still remember their launch video from around then and thinking it was one of the best ads I’d ever seen.