Software Engineering
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Every Codebase Is an Uncompiled Knowledge Base
Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Base architecture is a powerful contribution, but it draws a false boundary between code and knowledge. Your codebase is the largest uncompiled knowledge base in your organization — and agents can now extract what's inside it.
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Code Is Knowledge
Code isn't just instructions for machines. It's a record of how an organization thinks — about customers, domains, risks, and trade-offs. We've always known this. Now we have tools that can make it explicit.
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GenAI Didn't Kill Rigor — It Moved It
The old bottleneck was implementation. The new bottleneck is ambiguity. And the rigor that used to live in coordination now needs to live in specification, context, and evaluation.
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Know Your Principles
Comprehension debt isn't just about AI-generated code you don't understand. It's about not being able to articulate the principles that make your codebase navigable in the first place.
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Finding Your True Worth
Your value isn't in typing code—it's in what you know. In a GenAI world, that tacit knowledge is more precious than ever.