Karpathy: Agents can handle math and drudgery, making old abstractions obsolete
karpathy · x · 2026-08-21
Andrej Karpathy replied to Chris McCormick, noting that as AI agents can handle a lot of the math, drudgery, and verification, it becomes increasingly appealing to tear down existing software abstractions. He suggests that many abstractions were built for a world with constraints on finite human intelligence and attention, constraints which are now dissolving.
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