You missed option c.
C) keep all 8 engineers so the team can pump out features faster, all still working 8 hour days. The ceo will probably be forced to do it to keep up with their competition.
> The reality: 3 weeks in, ~50 hours of coding, and I'm mass-producing features faster than I can stabilize them. Things break. A lot. But when it works, it works.
I don't know if it's fair to call him an ai addict or deduce that his ego is bruised. But I do wonder whether karpathy's agentic llm experiences are based on actual production code or pet projects. Based on a few videos I have seen of his, I am guessing it's the latter. Also, he is a research scientist (probably a great one), not a software developer. I agree with the op that karpathy should not be given much attention in this topic i.e llms for software development.
With the llm, it might work or it might not. If it doesn't work, then you have to keep iterating and hand holding it to make it work. Sometimes that process is less optimal than writing the code manually. With a calculator, you can be sure that the first attempt will work. An idiot with a calculator can still produce correct results. An idiot with an llm often cannot outside trivial solutions.
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I have two LG oleds. I turned off a bunch off settings and blocked the LG update url in pihole, set pihole as dns. I just use the tv, without any connected devices. It is pretty responsive, I get 0 ads.
The only inconvenient part is going fully through their god awful settings menu and turning off a bunch of them once.