Building the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)
What it is
Andrej Karpathy's Databricks talk on Software 2.0, the shift from human-written code to code produced by neural network training. It covers how developer work moves toward curating datasets, the advantages and challenges, and opportunities for new tooling.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the primary source for the 'Software 2.0' idea and recommends it as a quick talk on the next software stack.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2022
What HN commenters said
“here's a good/quick talk by Andrej Kapathy on what it will take to build the next software stack.”
Quick talk on building the next software stack.
__sy__, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “Launch HN: Aquarium (YC S20) – Improve Your ML Dataset Quality”
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Topics: andrej karpathy, neural networks, datasets, machine learning tooling, software stack
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