Karpathy Declares Gradient Descent Can Write Code Better Than You
RichmanRonald · x · 2026-08-05
Former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy stated bluntly on X that "gradient descent" (referring to deep learning/AI models) can now write code better than humans.
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