From ea6e75c58ead44b4e53377ee542d11fca9efc689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: m3taversal Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:07:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Auto: inbox/archive/2026-02-25-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md | 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) --- ...5-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 inbox/archive/2026-02-25-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md diff --git a/inbox/archive/2026-02-25-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md b/inbox/archive/2026-02-25-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14808bf --- /dev/null +++ b/inbox/archive/2026-02-25-karpathy-programming-changed-december.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +type: source +title: "Programming fundamentally changed in December 2025 — coding agents basically didn't work before and basically work since" +author: "Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)" +twitter_id: "33836629" +url: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2026731645169185220 +date: 2026-02-25 +domain: ai-alignment +secondary_domains: [teleological-economics] +format: tweet +status: unprocessed +priority: medium +tags: [coding-agents, ai-capability, phase-transition, software-development, disruption] +--- + +## Content + +It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn't work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. + +## Agent Notes + +**Why this matters:** 37K likes — Karpathy's most viral tweet in this dataset. This is the "phase transition" observation from the most authoritative voice in AI dev tooling. December 2025 as the inflection point for coding agents. + +**KB connections:** Supports [[as AI-automated software development becomes certain the bottleneck shifts from building capacity to knowing what to build]]. Relates to [[the gap between theoretical AI capability and observed deployment is massive across all occupations]] — but suggests the gap is closing fast for software specifically. + +**Extraction hints:** Claim candidate: coding agent capability crossed a usability threshold in December 2025, representing a phase transition not gradual improvement. Evidence: Karpathy's direct experience running agents on nanochat. + +**Context:** This tweet preceded the autoresearch project by ~10 days. The 37K likes suggest massive resonance across the developer community. The "asterisks" he mentions are important qualifiers that a good extraction should preserve.