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Andrej Karpathy finds English-language prompting too much typing compared with navigating to the desired code location and starting to type, which lets autocomplete provide code.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“there and so i just kind of feel like they're bloating the code base they're bloating the complexity they keep misunderstanding they're using deprecated apis a bunch of times so it's a total mess um and uh it's just it's just not net useful i can go in i can clean it up but it's not not useful i also feel like it's kind of annoying to have to like type out what i want in english because it's just too much typing like if i just navigate to the part of the code that i want and i go where i where i know the code has to appear and i start typing out the first three letters”
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