Andrey Karpathythe former Tesla Autopilot head and an ex-OpenAI Researcher, has expressed his preference for the rapidly evolving AI-assisted programming landscape over traditional “unaided” coding.

What happened: On Friday, Karpathy said X“Programming is changing so fast… I’m trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 again instead of GitHub Copilot and I think it’s a net win now.”

He explained that his programming work currently consists mainly of writing English, reviewing and editing generated diffs, and doing a bit of “semi-coding.”

This process involves writing the first piece of code, commenting it so that the large language model (LLM) understands the plan, and then going through the iterations.

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While Karpathy admitted that he is still getting used to all the features of this new programming approach, he explained, “I basically can’t imagine going back to ‘unsupervised’ programming at this point, which was the only option about three years ago.”

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Why it is important: Karpathy’s comments reflect a broader trend in the technology industry, where AI is increasingly being used to automate coding tasks.

Beginning of the month CEO of Amazon Web Services, Matt Garmanpredicted that AI could soon dominate programming, noting, “It is possible that most developers will not program in the near future.”

This prediction seems to be coming true. According to Amazon CEO Andy Jassyyour AI assistant, Amazon Qhas significantly reduced software upgrade times and saved thousands of hours of work. The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 dropped from 50 developer days to just a few hours thanks to Amazon Q, Jassy revealed.

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