AI and jobs

17 Nov 2025

Andrej Karpathy quoted

HoldsHow verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.

The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.

↗Verifiabilitykarpathy.bearblog.dev

16 Nov 2025

Andrej Karpathy quoted

HoldsThe best historical analogy for AI is not electricity or the industrial revolution but a new computing paradigm, because both are fundamentally about automating digital information processing.

AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.

↗@karpathy on Xx.com

25 Sept 2025

Andrej Karpathy quoted

HoldsMost current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive.

There are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market.

↗@karpathy on Xx.com

24 Apr 2025

David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

HoldsHowever capable AI coding tools become, the industry will still need junior programmers, because someone must be able to vet what the machine produces.

However good AI gets, we're always going to need people who know the ins and outs of what the machine comes up with.

↗We'll always need junior programmersworld.hey.com