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Karpathy calls it a magnitude 9 earthquake in software engineering

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Andrej Karpathy described a magnitude 9 earthquake in software engineering, handing humans a powerful alien tool that multiplies leverage tenfold for those who master the new abstraction layer.

Reporting date: 2025-12-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 27, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Andrej Karpathy

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Karpathy calls it a magnitude 9 earthquake in software engineering
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Reporting date: 2025-12-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-27-karpathy-magnitude-9
Claim: Andrej Karpathy described a magnitude 9 earthquake in software engineering, handing humans a powerful alien tool that multiplies leverage tenfold for those who master the new abstraction layer.
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- Welcome to December 27, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-27-2025
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