Karpathy to Stanford Engineers: English is the Hottest New Programming Language
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-08-26
Andrej Karpathy told a room of Stanford engineers that the hottest new programming language is English. He noted that the craft of writing clean code from scratch—which defined the last six years—can now be approximated in seconds by a well-built sentence. This shift is becoming a headcount decision; a former Infosys CFO stated, "The pyramid model is gone. With coding agents, we no longer need basic coding." The post draws a parallel to the process of raising leaders—guiding, accompanying, and letting go—suggesting that the skill ladder now rewards judgment to direct output rather than producing it line by line.
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