Karpathy reportedly says prompting is fading: graphs are the layer that survives
msharmas · x · 2026-10-03
A retweeted post claims Andrej Karpathy argued in a 1-hour lecture that "prompting is fading away" and that in the LLM → prompts → agents → graphs progression, the graph is the layer everything ends up becoming — and explains how to build those graphs.
Note this is a third-party paraphrase with no link to the original lecture, so the exact framing and evidence remain unverified. The gist: the industry's focus is shifting from perfecting prompts toward structuring LLM apps as explicit graphs/workflows.
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