Karpathy Built a YouTube Clone in Two Hours Without Writing Code — Here's What's Actually Scary About That
I read Karpathy’s HackerTube post on Saturday morning with my coffee going cold, and I had two reactions in quick succession. The first was “oh that’s clever.” The second, about thirty seconds later, was “wait, this should bother me more than it does.” Let me back up. If you’ve managed any kind of infrastructure, you know the gap. There’s the idea — “I want a thing that does X” — and then there’s the two weeks of actual work: the data wrangling, the frontend you half-remember how to build, the server you have to provision and lock down, the DNS, the deploy pipeline that breaks on the first push. The idea is free. The shipping is the job. That gap is basically what my whole career has been about living inside. ...