observation · 17 Oct 2025 · 1:48:00

Andrej Karpathy observes that self-driving is a single vertical problem, whereas general software engineering has more surface area.

Self-driving is just one of thousands of things that people do. It's almost like a single vertical, I suppose. Whereas when we're talking about general software engineering, it's even more... There's more surface area.

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