Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla autopilot head and an ex-OpenAI researcher, has voiced his preference for the rapidly evolving programming landscape assisted by AI, over traditional “unassisted” coding. What Happened: On Friday, Karpathy said on X, “Programming is changing so fast… I’m trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot again and I think it’s now a net win.” He elaborated that his programming work now primarily involves writing English, reviewing and editing generated diffs, and doing a bit of “half-coding.” This process includes writing the initial part of the code…
