Programming Is Dead, Long Live Prompting
PLUS: Robots learn household chores
Karpathy says English is the hottest new programming language. The future of coding just got very conversational.
Google's Learn Your Way turns PDFs into personalized learning formats and boosted retention scores from 67% to 78%.
OpenAI Residency pays $220K annualized for six months and requires zero ML experience, just strong fundamentals and fast learning.
Physical Intelligence got robots to wash pans and make PB&J sandwiches. Moravec's paradox is getting smashed in real time.
Karpathy feels behind as a programmer because there's a new layer to master involving agents, prompts, and stochastic entities mixing with engineering.
Balaji's counter take: prompting is programming, you just need to prompt faster and verify faster. The verification is the hard part.
Bill Gurley says the biggest AI returns already happened early, making later bets way harder and more selective.
Elvis says spend two hours daily with Claude Code and you'll realize you're more capable than you thought. Context engineering is the game now.