Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: "The hottest new programming language is English"

Date:
Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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With large language models becoming increasingly prevalent over the last few years, more and more people have the means to code

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AI has changed many aspects of the professional world, especially the practice of software development and engineering. A swathe of tools and platforms now enable programmers to use AI assistants and copilots as well as swarms of agents to work on building systems autonomously, based on instructions. And for one key figure in the AI space, this was something of an inevitability. "The hottest new programming language is English" Andrej Karpathy, January 2023 Going viral In a viral post on the social media platform X , one of the key figures behind the conception of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy, remarked on the future of programming, provoking a reaction from many in the industry at the time. Quote of the day This article is part of TechRadar Pro's QOTD project to provide an insight into the minds of the brightest and most recognized figures in the technology industry today and in years gone by. Read the full series here . ChatGPT had launched a few months prior to that, and developers were already familiar
with the basic level of coding that the chatbot could perform, especially in popular languages such as Python and HTML. Much of this was also based on simple text-based instructions meaning that the AI models could understand and process natural language and churn out complex programming in a way that hadn't been seen before. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

Karpathy, who in 2024 co-founded Eureka Labs, an AI education platform, perfectly encapsulated the feeling, with the tech industry in the process of understanding the full implications of this technology. Good vibes only Karpathy added in a follow-up post that many examples out there in scientific literature showed that natural language was capable of wielding AI to engage in complex programming. These findings served as a collective precursor to many enterprise features that we see in widespread use today, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and others. You may like Microsoft engineer claims 'typing code is absolutely over', with AI and GitHub Copilot set to transform coding as we know it Are we vibe coding our way to a new legacy crisis? Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder Franois Chollet: "OpenAI basically set
back progress to AGI by five to 10 years"

However, the rise of vibe coding and instructions-based programming also
means that the nature of the work is changing for many software developers. Many now simply review code instead of writing it themselves, engaging in validation and bug-squashing.

Thus, the role of software development is becoming something that requires fewer and fewer juniors. This, however, may lead to other unintended consequences including the fact that the traditional career pipeline is permanently changed. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to
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