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Jim Anderson@AceForce_Jim·23 Mar

@r0ck3t23 AI has to be trained on data. It takes way longer to do this than for my own "meat computer" to respond in a smart way to new information. Until the "refresh cycle" for some megawatt datacenter is faster than my 20W cranial CPU, have fun with that 😜

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Dustin@r0ck3t23·22 Mar

Andrej Karpathy just described something most people are not psychologically ready to hear. The man who built the AI team at Tesla and helped shape OpenAI from the inside, just sat down on a podcast and told every researcher listening that they are building their own replacement. And they already know it. Karpathy: “You guys realize if we’re successful, we’re all out of a job?” That was not a joke. That was not a thought experiment. He walked the halls at OpenAI and said it directly. The response was not disagreement. It was silence. Because they can see it working. But here is the part almost everyone is getting wrong. The short-term picture is the complete opposite of what people expect. Software demand is not about to collapse. It is about to spike harder than any point in the history of computing. Karpathy: “Code is now ephemeral and it can change and it can be modified.” For fifty years every business on the planet was trapped inside whatever software they could afford to buy. You subscribed to tools built for someone else. You adapted your workflow to fit their product. You lived with the friction because rewriting it from scratch would cost more than your entire department. That constraint just evaporated. When AI can rewrite code instantly and endlessly the entire digital layer of the global economy is about to get torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up. Not upgraded. Not patched. Rebuilt. Every company on Earth suddenly has the ability to generate software that fits their exact needs in real time. That is not less demand for software. That is an explosion of demand so massive most people have not even begun to process the scale. And then the long-term hits. Karpathy: “These researchers are basically automating themselves away, like actively.” These are not factory workers watching a robot take over the assembly line. These are the most elite engineering minds alive building a system that will do their job better than they can. And they feel it. The interviewer called it a psychosis and Karpathy did not push back on the word. Because that is exactly what it is. Imagine going to work every day knowing that every breakthrough you achieve brings you one step closer to making yourself unnecessary. That every improvement you ship teaches the machine to need you a little less. That is the psychological reality inside every major AI lab on Earth right now. And if the people building the thing know they are on borrowed time there is no protected class. Not lawyers. Not analysts. Not engineers. Not researchers. Nobody gets to sit this one out. Karpathy: “We’re just building automation for Sam or something like that. Or the board.” That line landed quiet but it is the most important thing he said. The AI does not work for the engineer who built it. It works for whoever sits at the top of the organization. When the entire R&D pipeline can be automated the thousand-person research lab compresses down to a founder and a fleet of agents. The middle layer does not get restructured. It gets deleted. The people building these systems understand that better than anyone. And they are building them anyway. Because if they do not someone else will. And then they are out with nothing to show for it. That is the trap nobody talks about. The smartest people in the world are locked in a race where winning and losing both end the same way for them personally. Karpathy did not speculate about some distant future on that podcast. He told you what is already happening inside the buildings where this technology gets made. The short-term boom is real. The long-term displacement is real. And the people closest to the fire are the ones getting burned first.