> Saying that Andrej Karpathy is "an AI researcher, but not a software engineer" isn't a very credible statement.

Broadly I agree with the two other replies: his 'day job' has not been coding in some time, so I would put him in the same bucket as e.g. a manager who got promoted out of writing code 5-10 years ago. I do want to understand where you're coming from here -- do you think that's a fair characterization?

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simonw 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

His GitHub contributions graph (1,261 contributions in 2024) looks pretty healthy to me. https://github.com/karpathy

He spends a lot of time as an educator these days.

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dijksterhuis 8 months ago | parent [-]

his commit messages leave something to be desired

> Merge pull request #740 from karpathy/gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2

> - fix tokenizer omg

> - attempt to fix PR

> - Merge branch 'fix_dataloader2' of https://github.com/gordicaleksa/llm.c into gordicaleksa-fix_dataloader2

	▲	pythonaut_16 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Come on really? Do you write perfect commit messages every single time on every project you work on?

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