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Research2026-06-10 · source-backed
Surfaced by Simon Willison, Karpathy argues cheap generation won't shrink the software market, it'll explode demand for explainers, visualizers, dashboards, and disposable single-use apps. The binding constraint becomes distribution and taste, not lines of code. It's the optimistic counter to "abundant AI code collapses developer value," and it lines up with what I'm seeing: the hard part of shipping a solo product was never the typing.
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Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entity: Karpathy / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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